Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.

The difference between me and many young people is, I don't carry music with me. I like to think. I don't use any modern convenience to be talking to other people, because I like my time to think. I go to the garden in the morning, and this time, I'm thinking ideas, I'm not drawing, I'm thinking.

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.

Many of the American cartoonists that want to have a job and go so much for the total right without thinking, sometimes they get a slap on the face when their politician lets them down. So it goes on and on. The thing is staying in the middle and not getting committed, trying to get the best of both and do that with a sense of humor.

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you’re drawing it.