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.

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

I would make a comic for Rolling Stone every two weeks, because they're biweekly. And then I would make weekly comics for my weekly papers. It was on two parallel tracks. And then they all got collected in a book.

The things I'm grateful for are: I had the one thing that I feel really lucky about, which is that I made something, I made art, that truly - in a weird way - truly comforted me and comforted a lot of people. And I'm really grateful that I got to have that experience.

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.

Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.