The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.

I've never been good at self-promotion. And my URL is really obscure. And for years and years, there was nothing about me on my website.

The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.

Obviously, I never had to sketch anything out. To me, that was the appeal of working with clip art, working digitally. You make it and it's done.

The time that I would spend revisiting my old Get Your War On strips is more profitably spent Googling myself and reading comments about how people hate my pencil-sharpening business.

I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it.

To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a good job. Especially if you're talking about real stuff, like terror atrocities and human rights abuses and pencil-sharpening techniques.