I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.

The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.

I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.

Take the hard way intentionally to get anything, stop cutting corners.

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.