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.

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

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.

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

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

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.