Cartoonist

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.