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

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.

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

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

Bechdel Test, was named for the comic strip it came from, penned by Alison Bechdel - but Bechdel credits a friend named Liz Wallace, so maybe it really should be called the Liz Wallace Test...? Anyway, the test is much simpler than the name. To pass it your movie must have the following: a) there are at least two named female characters, who b) talk to each other about c) something other than a man.

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