She also started drawing psychedelic images with magic markers for fun. She got back into comics in the late 1960s when the Batman television show and the proliferation of Pop Art made comics interesting to young hippies. She became an active member of science fiction fandom in the 1950s, and her illustrations appeared in science fiction fanzines such as the Hugo-nominated Habakkuk. After Queens College she attended Cooper Union art school, again dropping out after a year. It could have put me through college." She started attending Queen's College in New York right out of high school and majored in English, but dropped out after a year. When she was a teenager, her mother convinced her to give away her comic book collection, which she later described as, "an amazing collection. Her mother, a second grade schoolteacher, taught her to read at the age of four, and soon she was reading all the books and comics she could find.
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