"Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now."

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"Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now."

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"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."

Gender

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

Love

"I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow."

Men

"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."

Mother

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

Father

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

Books

"Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff."

Old

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

Confession

"It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair."

Age

"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."

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