The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers and tried to immerse you in their world.

There's a part of me that feels like it gets really frustrating to keep working in the manner that I made the book 'Shortcomings,' where everything is pretty accurate to the real world.

My early comics are really reflective of being kind of a befuddled, single loser in the Bay Area, and I think having kids has been by far the most profound impact on me as a person and as an artist.

'Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read.

The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.

The type of cartooning that I think is generally referred to as 'alternative' or 'underground' is usually - the distinction is usually in terms of whether it's made by one person, the entire thing is done by one hand or more of a production line process, which is how the comics that we grew up reading were made.