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" Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables. "

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" I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear. "

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" Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times. "

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