If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.

I think if you want to do a thing properly you have to take a lot of care. I've always found it's easier to draw comics if you know clearly in your head what you're drawing, rather than if you try and make it up as you go along.

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.