I Never Really Read Superhero Stuff As

The Web Is My Unconscious But It's Also A Wish -- A Fantasy Of What My Own Creativity Might Look Like If I Weren't Constantly Impeding Its Flow.

The Secret Subversive Goal Of My Work Is To Show That Women, Not Just Lesbians, Are Regular Human Beings.

In A Narcissistic Cathexis, You Invest More Energy Into Your Ideas About Another Person Than In The Actual, Objective, External Person. So The Man Who Falls In Love With Beauty Is Quite Different From The Man Who Loves A Girl And Feels She Is Beautiful And Can See What Is Beautiful About Her.

The Satiric Ethos Of Mad Was A Much Bigger Childhood Influence.

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.