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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.

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

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

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

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.

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

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.

Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I loved drawing and capturing beautiful movements.

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.