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

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

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

Self-published media are really critical. It's so heartwarming that people are still doing it in this digital age. It's just really moving and exciting. You can't really replace a beautiful little mini-comic. It doesn't translate to the computer, you know? Handmade stuff has really given me hope for humanity.