The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.

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

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

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.

Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?

The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.

I could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don't act clinically OCD. I'm not going to check things so many times I have to take drugs for it. But the kind of complicated and painstaking work I have to do to make my drawings, it just kind of harnesses that compulsive energy in a constructive way.