Charles Forsman

“E.C. Segar, who created 'Thimble Theatre' and 'Popeye,' is one of my favorite cartoonists.”

“I was really into music, but I thought, 'Comics are great, I should get back into that.'”

“I like to leave things open, and even when I write out the story ahead of time, it always changes. I don't think I would finish anything if I was sticking to a plan that was very rigid.”

“I always idealized the mainstream cartoonists and the packed schedule they worked under.”

“I have about 20 sketchbooks from my childhood filled with drawings, but I'd only have a page here or there where I was trying to figure out how to do comics.”

“Growing up my brother showed me a lot of Cohen brothers movies, I guess that's where I get my dark humor from.”

“There are lots of theories that the simpler a comic character is drawn the more relatable they become. People can imprint themselves onto the gaps in the picture. The skill of cartooning is often working out how much can be stripped away.”

“I'm hard-pressed to say that anything I do in my comics is intentional. But that is a stupid thing to say.”

“I love a nicely designed paper comic but I don't need to own them. To me, comics are about reading them. If I can get that on a tablet and not have another pile of paper under my coffee table, then I will opt for digital.”

“I like Comixology and I think they have a very captive audience which is good and bad. I hope that getting my books on there expose folks who just read Marvel/DC/Image to try something different.”

“I grew up with 2 older brothers, the oldest of which was big into film. Hanging around him got me seeing so much good stuff at an early age. Maybe a 10-year-old should not be watching 'Boyz N the Hood' like 10 times in a row? I don't know. But it probably shaped me in some way.”

“I was pretty depressed when I was a teenager. The thing that spurred that on was that my dad died from cancer when I was 11 years old.”

“My brother and I were really into baseball cards, and it seemed like an easy switch to jump over to comics.”

“I like a challenging comic as much as the next guy but I feel like I am pretty conservative when it comes to laying out my comics. I like the panels to be clear and keep any ambiguity to the story or actual reading.”

“I had zits on my thighs when I was a kid. I remember feeling so disgusting and grossed out by them.”

“I'm the kind of person who can paralyze myself very easily by over-thinking decisions.”

“The presentation of young people you often get from Hollywood is too shiny.”

“I found a really cheap Visograph printer on Craigslist and drove down to Pennsylvania to pick it up and that really gave me a lot of freedom.”

“I feel like interviews are the only time I actually analyze my own work.”

“There are too many distractions on a computer.”