I Had No Television When I Was

For Example, I Noticed That Every Single Kid In The High School In 'the Death-ray' Is Based On Somebody I Went To High School With.

One Of My Weekend Hobbies Is To Go Look At Old Houses When There Are Open Houses Around Here. Just To Go Look At The Architecture. And You Can See How Many Houses Were Built Around 1977, The Year Where Everyone Said, "let's Put In These Aluminum Windows Instead Of Beautiful Hand-made Wood Ones."

I Knew How To Draw All Of The Different Smokestacks On The Old Trains And All That Stuff, And Then I Realized That If I Can Draw Trains, Which Is The Thing I Was Probably The Least Interested In In The World At The Time, I Can Do Anything And Find A Way Into It That Will Be Interesting.

I Think That Gulf Is What Makes The Work Interesting, But As A Creator It's Endlessly Frustrating Because I'm Starting Out With This Goal, This Thing I'm Trying To Create, And Then The Thing I Actually Do Create Is Very, Very Different. It's Always Painful, In Some Ways, Especially When It's Just Finished.

I Have A Very Low Tolerance For Animation. I'm Used To The Perfect Integrity You Get From Drawing Your Own Comics. There's Something About That That Animation Always Loses.