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

In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

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

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

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

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.