It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

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

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

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.

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity