The Satiric Ethos Of Mad Was A

Drawing Is More Fun To Me Than Writing. I Think It's Interesting To Talk To Different Cartoonists About How Those Activities Work For Them. I'm A Very Writerly Cartoonist. I Certainly Spend More Time On The Writing Than I Do On The Drawing, Even Though The Drawing, Of Course, Is Very Time-consuming.

It Certainly Was An Important Moment For Me, That Realization That I Was Not Going To Get What I Wanted. It Was Very Freeing. I Keep Using That Word "freeing" Or "liberating." I Feel Like Houdini Sometimes, Like I'm Just Getting Out Of One Set Of Shackles After Another, Hanging Upside Down Inside A Burlap Bag With Handcuffs On. Hopefully One Day, I'm Going To Get Out Of This Tank Of Water.

Autobiographical Comics, I Love Them. I Love Them.

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.

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.