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" Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word. "
Myself
Thought
Word
" For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness. "
Color
Movies
Horror Movies
" For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures. "
Looking
Drawing
Book
" Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed. "
Kind
Off
Like
" 'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't. "
Story
Good
Good Times
" Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. "
Humor
Fool
Beautiful
" I am about as detailed as a shadow. "
Am
Shadow
About
" I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky. "
Lucky
Man
Like
" I believe a kid who is playing is not alone. There is something brought alive during play, and this something, when played with, seems to play back. "
Alone
Back
Believe
" I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth. "
Dumb
Mirror
Voice
" I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. "
People
Talk
Way
" If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time. "
Humor
Walk
Ride
" If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately. "
Class
Would
Student
" If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. "
Cruise
Time
Will
" I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. "
Myself
Draw
Cute
" I go to work the minute I open my eyes. "
Go
Work
Open
" I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine. "
Imagine
Much
Trouble
" I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking. "
Me
Women
People
" I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control. "
Dark
Control
Live
" I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid! "
Crazy
Kid
Know
" I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up. "
Funny
Up
People
" In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke. "
Joke
Life
Things
" In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I also won't let anyone look at the person who's reading. No eye contact; everybody has to draw a spiral. And I would like to do a drawing class where we could talk about anything except for the drawing. No one could even mention it. "
Reading
Story
Eye
" I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me. "
Remember
Comic
New
" I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all. "
Try
Ship
Seem
" I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer. "
Always
Never
Thought
" I think of images as an immune system and a transit system. "
Think
Immune
I Think
" I tried to be like the richer kids as much as I could because I wanted to live on their streets, at least hang out on their streets and eat their amazing food and walk barefoot on their shag carpets. I became something of a pest in that way, and in general, other people's parents didn't like me. "
Parents
Live
Me
" It's much easier to teach writing, because people are less shy about writing. If they're in a group, nobody can see what they're writing. When you're drawing, people get a little more nervous. "
Drawing
Writing
People
" It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the form of what makes people laugh, and afterwards I'd always feel dreadfully depressed, kind of self-induced bi-polar disorder. "
Kind
People
Me
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