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

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 love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

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Love

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

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Reason

Wind

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

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Work

Spirit

I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more.

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

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Confession

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

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Reason

Writing

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

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Father

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

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History

Pretty

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

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Love

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

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

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Books

Growing up

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

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Hair