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" Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks. "

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" Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white. "

" But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu. "

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

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" Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. "

" I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow. "

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