I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?

Usually when I sat down to draw a cartoon, it would be more of a reflection of things in my past. Or it could be something I had experienced that morning, or that week, or something I might know that's part of my background.

I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.

On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass!