Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

There are no cartoons about happy marriages.

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

I chose to stylize 'Among Friends' and add a dark comedic element because I didn't want to get pigeonholed as a genre director. I have a pretty dark sense of humor and knew that in order to get distribution, I had to do something in the genre for my first time out.

I always knew about comedy; I always loved comedy.

I would never bring a kid to a comedy show myself, but I have noticed that I can't stop other people from bringing their kids.