Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.

If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually.

I'm working so much I don't see the work of many young cartoonists so it's hard for me to tell which are my favourites. Maybe when I get to stick my head out of the sand I'll be able to let you know.

When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within.

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone's fear is equal.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

Also, at a certain point relentlessness itself can become comedic.

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

The nicest present I ever got was an exploding suppository.

Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.

Our greatest resource is the human resource.

The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history.

Persistent work triumphs.