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.

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.