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I entered high school she[ my mother] said, "Well, you're a teenager now, and comics are for kids, so you shouldn't read them anymore," and I went, "Oh, okay," and I gave away what, of course, would now be thousands…

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In the sixties, in the middle sixties, suddenly comics became this hip thing, and college students and hippies were reading them. So I was one of them, and I started reading, basically it was the Marvel Renaissance at that point. It was all their new characters, Spiderman and the X-Men and the Fantastic Four.

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I went to art school, but I didn't last because in those days you couldn't take comics as a course. And they weren't even…

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Today, although as a whole, the industry is still male-dominated, more women are drawing comics than ever before, and there are more venues for them to see their work in print. In the 1950s, when the comic industry hit an all-time low, there was no place for women to go. Today, because of graphic novels, there's no place for aspiring…

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There's a difference between sexy and hyper-sexy. The way I have drawn Vampirella, she's definitely sexy, I designed the costume. But her costume, through…

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I object to the hypersexualization of all the superheroines. Most of them have been hypersexualized, but especially to Wonder Woman, because she is an…

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I started drawing comics, and at first I was very influenced by the whole pop art movement, you know, Batman was on TV and all that pop art stuff? But then my next influence was in 1966, or maybe it was '65, I don't know. Somebody showed me a copy of the "East Village Other", which was an underground newspaper.…

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I am proud of having drawn the first comic about a lesbian - and it didn't even occur to me that I was drawing…

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Disney has a bible for their characters, so that people who draw Disney characters have to make them look correct.

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I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it…

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I entered high school she[ my mother] said, "Well, you're a teenager now, and comics are for kids, so you shouldn't read them anymore,"…

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I saw the comics in the East Village Other, and they weren't superhero comics, they were all about hippies and all about things hippies…

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The most interesting to me were Doctor Strange, because he was so mystic, and Thor, because that was really cool. I mean, I had…

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