I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

You can't live and write at the same time.

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.