Nobody could be a professional cartoonist, because you have to do something you don't like to do in order to be a responsible adult and pay the rent.

The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.

I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.

I had good relationships with stores. And I was like, "All right, I'll self-publish it. But I'm only going to do 1,000."

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to keep the same structure and just plug in new content every week.

I've been really surprised about a lot of the negative comments about artisanal pencil sharpening. Like, it really rubs some people the wrong way.