One of the writers that I have admired my entire life is Charles Schulz who did the Peanuts cartoons, Charlie Brown and Snoopy. And when I was a kid, I would just plop down on the floor with my newspaper and read them over and over again and I would bring out a stack of paper and a pencil and I would try to draw them. And so he was so influential not only to my sense of humor but really to my drawing style as well.
The way he drew with such simple lines. He could put so much expression in a face with just a little dot here and a dot there and a little [makes noise]. And you could feel like you could peek into that character’s soul with just a few dots. And I really admire how that could be — such a profound thing could be presented so simply.