I’d be like “mom, who’s Jesse Jackson?” And she’d tell me and I’d get to learn something.Īnd I’d be remiss in not mentioning Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, because that strip was a revelation to me, as it was to so many other people-I doubt there’s a cartoonist under 50 who wasn’t hugely influenced by it. I didn’t understand a lot of it, because I was like nine and it was really tied into current events, but I liked that about it. I also got into Berkely Breathed’s Bloom County. My mom had this treasury of Peanuts cartoons from the 50s and 60s, that she’d had since she was a kid, and I remember devouring it I was fascinated by the fact that it was this whole world, this big and varied cast of characters, and all of it had come out of one guy’s imagination. The first one I really liked was Peanuts by Charles Schulz. What were your favorite comics when you were a kid? AMP, which also publishes Phoebe, is expected to release it in 2018. Simpson is transgender, and in addition to her successful Phoebe series, she is working on a graphic memoir of her transition, Only You’re Different, for middle-grade readers. As often happens, it was a great interview and I could only use a few sentences in the story, so I’m running it in full today. I interviewed Dana Simpson, the creator of the Phoebe and Her Unicorn graphic novels, when I was writing the article “Just Another Day in an LGBTQ Comic” for SLJ.
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