I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

Making 'Beloved' was an awesome experience.

I don't think there's necessarily anything that's rock solid about any marriage. It's all about that balance, especially when you have kids.

Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.