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I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

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For me, drawing was an outlet. No one in school said, 'Oh, she can do sports,' or, 'She's pretty,' but I could draw.

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I have an African gray parrot; her name is Eli. We thought she was a boy. And a blue-streaked lory named Marco. He's 10. And a yellow and green parakeet, Petey. He's very cute, but he's getting old.

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When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is that shock: 'Oh man, I'm an orphan.' There's also this relief: It's done; it's finished; it's over.

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My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

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I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

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I think, with my cartoons, the parent-like figures are kind of my own archeypes of parents, and they're taken a little bit from my parents and other people's parents, and parents I have read about, and parents I dreamed about, and parents that I made up.

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My kids always joked that I spent more time cooking the birds' food than I have cooking for them. And it's probably true.

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I don't like holidays. And I don't like crowds of people. I don't like noise.

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I used to think of the cartoons as a magazine within a magazine. First you go through and read all the cartoons, and then you go back and read the articles.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Cartoonist

Born: November 26th, 1954

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