I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.

I think cartooning gets at, and re-creates on the page, some sixth sense ... in a way no other medium can.

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.

I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.

I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery.

Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.

"Real" drawing is about specifics. It's about describing an object as accurately as possible. In a comic strip you have to draw a picture of the idea of the object. You have to draw the word that you are picturing, then you have to mix in specifics with it for it to work as a story. But you are still working with drawn words.