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

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.

You can't live and write at the same time.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.