Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

My first character was Mr. Toad.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.