Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.