I really wasn't into comic books growing up.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.

I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children.

Against a team who are tight inside their area, you look to find combinations, the center with the wings or with shots from outside the box.

I played a lot of sports growing up. I played soccer.

My dream was to draw for 'The Beano.' When I was 10 years old, I started drawing cartoon strips with 'The Beano' in mind. I lived in that world. You own a comic, it's yours and adults don't understand it. You could pile them up under the bed, and if you were off school ill, you'd go through them all.

Only flies have true halteres. In fact, the scientific term for flies, 'diptera,' means 'two wings.' Most insects, including bees, have two pairs of wings for a total of four. In flies, the hindwing pairs have been transformed through evolution into the halteres.

Drawing on real life is what novelists do. It's not the same as reconstructing real life, which is what historians do.

I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss.

Ever since I got drafted by the Yankees, I've been working on my swing.

I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.

For me, growing up, one of my biggest fashion inspirations was Aaliyah.

There's always plays that Coach Reid just draws up every single week. I always say that they always work. He just gets on the board in his room and just starts drawing plays. The possibilities are endless.

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

Texas was a hotbed for professional wrestling when I was growing up.

Part of being married is knowing when your husband needs your support.

Growing up, I did not have many friends with parents who were together.