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

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

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.

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.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!