I was hired as a penciler.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.
One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
Generally, I don't pencil, especially with the autobiographical comics, although I've usually planed out composition in my head during the scripting stage. I like to work directly in ink, to keep the spontaneity and expression conveyed by a less worked over line.
I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.
I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman.
I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.
I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student.
I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
I have always been a pencil.