Yeah he is amazing in his strength and openess. He was afflicted with very severe manic depression yet still served in the war and became a comic genius. I remember loving his book as a kid and went on to develop SchizoAffective disorder myself. Luckily I do not get those deep depressions but blunted emotional numbness and hypomania seasonally. I see him as a success story of how severe illness can be managed and need not destroy our lives or our true selves.