Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

We're all idealistic when young.

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.