I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols. The reader reads into them something worse than what you normally would have. They work as this outburst of incoherent anger. I've found ways to write around swearing that are much more effective, rather than going for what someone really would say.

All I can say on the Guilford story - and this comes more from my perspective as a father than an artist - is for parents and administrators to give so little value to the career of a public-school teacher - to allow him to be cast aside without exhausting every avenue to resolve the issue - is an obscenity worse than anything I've ever drawn in my comics.

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.