Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.

I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents.

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to see the artist's line in better detail, and what kind of ink they use - whether they like a cold black or a warm black, and what kind of paper they like, how big or small they like to draw - art nerd stuff like that.

I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.

Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.