Captain Underpants was a character that I created when I was in second grade, and it all started because I was sitting in the classroom with my friends and our teacher was telling us a story and she happened to use the word underwear and we all started to laugh.
And I’m not sure why we all thought underwear was so funny, but she did not think it was funny at all. She was very upset and she said, “Hey, boys and girls, underwear is not funny.” And so we all laughed even harder of course. And I’ll never forget that moment. Everyone around us was laughing their heads off because of underwear, and I thought wow, underwear’s very powerful; I should do something with that.
So I took out a piece of paper and a pencil and started drawing this guy here, the waistband warrior, Captain Underpants. And he has been with me for almost 40 years I think. There we go.
