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" When I graduated, I sort of went from school to being a cartoonist, and I couldn't draw. "

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" I think the best villains are ones that you can look at and say, 'Yeah, he's obviously going about this the wrong way or going too far or whatever, but I can see where he's coming from.' Magneto's a great example of that, and the reason he and Charles Xavier can have such great conversations is that they can both make some good points. "

" In earlier comics, my only priority was telling a joke in the last panel, but now I try to make every panel as interesting as possible, and that normally means at least a li'l joke there. "

" I do actually do good work! And it's hard! And I'm worth it! "

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" Librarians are awesome; I don't care who knows it. "

" I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case it was the last. But then I talked to other cartoonists, and I realized ideas are cheap; you can have a million ideas. The tricky part is the follow-through: making good ones work, making the best out of the raw material! "

" I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle. "

" Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics. "

" It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full. "

" You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too. "

" You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing. "

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" There may be this hidden, hate-filled community of online cartoonists, but if there are, I haven't found it yet. We're all generally pretty nice people, it turns out! "