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I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.

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.

My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.