A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.

I always thought that cemeteries gave me some sense of perspective

I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.

My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.