Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

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

Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.

I do sometimes miss doing that lighter, more humorous work, and I find there's a heavier responsibility that goes along with a literary reputation. You have to start knowing what you're talking about and you have to go have public conversations with writers. That's been pretty intense; I have to really stay on top of things in a way I didn't before.

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.