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I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you're drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.

I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.