I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home – if you were a woman you were writing about being a woman – and I decided not to do that write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby you know I'll do anything locally but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'
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I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much.
