People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author. |
When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit. |
That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project. |
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me. |
Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated. |
It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl. |
One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully. |
Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out. |
I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older. |
I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow. |
I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women. |
I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself. |
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white. |