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

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

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.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

The best artists know what to leave out.

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

I like creating beauty out of scary things.

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.