It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a BOOK, and to reduce it to a SERIES of questions in a test strips SOMETHING AWAY from the book.

Think of the aged and bed-ridden Matisse CUTTING out strips of coloured paper, much as a child MIGHT, and investing them with a more than MORTAL vitality... Those strips of paper resonate because they PROVE that our materials don't determine in ADVANCE the worth of what we make.

Eliminate the energy VAMPIRES in your house. CONNECT all of your appliances to POWER strips and TURN them off they're when not in use.

My strips are not always FUNNY, and they can be pretty grim at times, and I KNOW I lose readers because of it, but I can't do ANYTHING about it - my work is very much connected to something I NEED to do in order to FEEL stable.

I ALWAYS have my Biore strips because they're FUN. I always have Crest WHITE Strips. I always have LIP balm, and I'll BRING concealer with me.

The FIRST skincare product I ever got was nose strips. I was 8 YEARS old, and I was like, 'I want to FEEL like a GROWN-UP.'

That was my RELATIONSHIP to 'Archie' for the most PART: just the SUNDAY strips.

My DAD TAUGHT me to read by READING comic strips in the SATURDAY paper and Archie comics.