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

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

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

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.