As for the reasons behind my retirement, they mostly center around simple fatigue and a fear that if I continue for many more years my work will begin to suffer, or at the very least ease into the graveyard of mediocre cartoons.
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
Don Martin was the one who really stood out. I really always loved his work. He was such a great artist.
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 was so intrigued by insects and things that crawled or flew - I could spend hours by myself in a vacant lot.
A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.
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.
Morbid humor is very valid, even healthy, as long as you don't do it gratuitously.
Sometimes I'm convinced that one day I'm going to draw the cartoon that offends everyone, and that'll be the end.
I love parasites! I can't get enough of them.
As a kid I used to raise snakes. Obviously, my social life was a bit down at the time. But it took me a while to realise that with an interest like that people are going to think there's something wrong with you.
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.