Spiegelman is tortured by the two dreaded questions that Lynda Barry poses in What It Is, her new book on drawing inhibition: "Is this good?" and "Does this suck?" She has methods for overcoming these demons, and they have to do with—surprise!—turning your memories, even the most mundane ones, into images. Spiegelman, like her, wants to cast his line with the wild ones. But can he? Or is he too self-conscious, too self-critical?