It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

I'm not that good of a drawer. I don't know how people just draw stuff out of their head. I'm always creating schemes. If I have to draw someone sitting in a chair, I have to go find a chair, sit in it, and take a picture of myself sitting in it.

The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

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'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

I could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don't act clinically OCD. I'm not going to check things so many times I have to take drugs for it. But the kind of complicated and painstaking work I have to do to make my drawings, it just kind of harnesses that compulsive energy in a constructive way.