I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.