I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.

I always liked to draw, and was actively encouraged by my mom, who had wanted to be an artist herself, but didn’t get the chance.

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

I didn’t really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.

The good thing about Broadway is that you don’t have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.

I’ve also been busy doing stuff for Steve Jackson Games.

The only problem is time.

If we had to go live action, I’d hold out for Tim Burton to direct.

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn’t necessarily have to be working in kids’ television.

My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a...

When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking notes the whole time. Then I do a rough layout of the issue, showing what happens...

You gotta keep the funny intact.

I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form – in this medium – and learn to give it your support because...

Why the hell can’t people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That’s what I want, and I bet a whole bunch of other people want it too.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a...

‘American Dad’ is, by its nature, much more political.

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you’re different in a society, you’re funny.

Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he’s funny.

As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.