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The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

I'm inspired by challenges. My life was always like this.

I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience.

I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.

I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.

I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.