Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
My first character was Mr. Toad.
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.