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

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

I grew up in a really small town: LaGrange, Georgia. There weren't a lot of creative outlets there, so I did local castings.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

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 grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's.