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.

I just wanted a really simple, dramatic way so that fans, people who were reading my comic, would be like, "This is something different." Just to flag it, almost.

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 don't want to be one of these people who's like, "Man, I don't know where my ideas come from and I don't know why this works."

People think, "Wow, people in America have so much money, they're sending hundreds of pencils to this guy." I don't think those people realize that most people who are buying these pencils are buying them as art objects or conversation pieces.

I got to draw shapes. I really like to draw funky, geometric shapes. And I got to use just different fonts and make a joke of how feminine it was, but it didn't even have people in it. To me, it was so exciting and interesting to do that for a while.