People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.
I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.
I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.
I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.
We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.
I wanted to be a painter.
I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.
I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.
I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.
The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.
People get really caught up in their own trips.
But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.
What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige.
I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.
Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.
Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.
I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come.
That's not so important to me, that time thing.
People are essentially red meat. They are.
