I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby you know I'll do anything locally but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'
I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to even if you you know are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal that that should nourish you.
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I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home – if you were a woman you were writing about being a woman – and I decided not to do that write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
