http://www.nycgraphicnove...t-origin-in-his-own.html
Sounds like a lovely editor, that Mort.
‘Even though you’re only fourteen, I’m going to treat you like I treat every other writer.’… What I didn’t know was that the way he treated every other writer was to be abusive, and he was to me. After that, we had a regularly scheduled phone call every Thursday night, right after the Batman TV show. He would call me any other time he needed to, of course, but that was our weekly scheduled call. He’d call me up, and that’s when he started going over the stories more and talking about what I’d sent in, maybe even talking about new ideas...
“So, when he was going over the material I had sent in earlier that week, he’d go over it panel by panel, word by word, page by page, he would start spewing ‘You idiot!’ He was just screaming at me about what a ‘retard, *#+@$#* moron I was, and how stupid I was every time he saw a spelling error or any kind of mistake. I was still doing rough sketches for every panel – I always did – and he also criticized my drawing: ‘What’s this guy holding? Is that supposed to be a gun? It looks like a carrot! You *#+@$#* moron!’ That’s a quote: that really happened.
“He really got nasty, and he’d scream at me for misspelling a word. It got to the point where every phone call would end with me saying ‘Look, maybe I’m not good enough to do this, and maybe you should get somebody else.’
Sounds like a lovely editor, that Mort.

