The artist at age nearly three. 1962, my first Halloween. My mother dressed me, and I assumed this was normal, since it was pretty much how I usually dressed, apart from the hat and the whiplash mustache (which is hard to see here). She never clarified who or what I was supposed to be. Just laughed hysterically.

Around this same time I drew the first picture that scandalized my parents. According to them, I came home from visiting the San Diego Zoo and began sketching furiously. It was a picture of an elephant with 2,000 circumcised penises.