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.

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

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

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.

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

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

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