The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.
The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.
I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.
I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.