Good Swiping Is An Art In Itself.

I Think We Overrate Experience And What We've Been Through In Terms Of Our Success At Doing The Work We Do. There Are Many People Who Get Beat Up, Who Suffer, Who Are Victimized, And Then They Sit Down To Write And They Write Crap.

Over The Years, I Discovered Over And Over Again That Once You Lose Control, You Have A Chance Of Getting Good At It. And Once You're Controlling The Work, It's Not Going To Be Very Good, Or It Won't Be As Good As It Should Be.

There's The Excitement Of Adding Color, Which I Didn't Know Anything About Until 1997 Or So, When I Did My First Picture Book. So, The Kid's Book In Particular Have Been Exciting For Me Because It Forced Me To Go Back To The Work I Loved As A Young Boy Reading Sunday's Supplements And Comics In The Sunday Papers When I Was Six, Seven, Eight, Nine. And Number Of Which Have Been In Wonderful Collections, Beautifully Reproduced.

I Seemed To Have Instinctually A Strong Idea Of How The Strip Had To Be Written From The Beginning. That Changed Too, But It Was More In The Direction Of Where It Was Headed. I Didn't Have A Clue As To The Drawing Style, Because The Drawing Style That I Was Groomed On From The Beginning Was Newspaper Comic Strips, Which Were Much More Conventional.

Getting Out Of Bed In The Morning Is An Act Of False Confidence.