It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.
Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.
The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.