I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.
I don't think I'd know if I were sitting next to Charles Schulz on an airplane.
I'm not into cartoons. That's the irony of it.
I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
I never sat down and said, you know, what the world needs is a good, sick cartoonist.
Sometimes I'm convinced that one day I'm going to draw the cartoon that offends everyone, and that'll be the end.
You can get away with a lot as long as it has a silly edge to it.
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
People get very passionate about saving the whale, but when something like a Florida indigo snake is endangered there are not a lot of people out there holding up placards.
Morbid humor is very valid, even healthy, as long as you don't do it gratuitously.
Don Martin was the one who really stood out. I really always loved his work. He was such a great artist.
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.
I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.
On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
I love parasites! I can't get enough of them.
Taking a solo on a tune is always a little bit scary.
I didn't realize I was working in a family medium.
My first month in syndication, I made about $100. I thought it would be exciting if I ever got up to the level where I could pay my rent.
