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

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

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

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

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.

Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.