I used to be an engineer, and I was the worst engineer in the United States of America. That's why I became a comic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.
I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.
I had a few comics, but I was by no means a huge aficionado. I was more of a 'Mad Magazine,' 'Calvin & Hobbes' sort of nerd.
I was born a comic.
I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.
I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.
Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.