Originally Posted by
Spasticat
From Wiki: "Claremont initially did not view the comic book industry as the place where he would make his career, as he believed the dwindling readership to be a sign that the industry was dying, and found the material being published to be uninteresting.[10] Instead, when he began Bard College, he did so as a political theorist, studying acting and political theory,[6][12][13] and writing novels with the hope of becoming a director. His first professional sale was a prose story."
I would think that qualifies him at least a little bit?