There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well.

I'm a writer who just happens to draw.

Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

Did you hear something?" "No." "Did I hear something?" "...I don't know.

Think beer; drink beer.

The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.