“I learned a great deal from Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera. I learned from them that cartoons can be as visually amazing as a Bob Clampett cartoon, but they also can be verbally clever, like the best of the Yogis and the Hucks. I really, ultimately, when I was...
“Create that community around you. And it doesn’t have to be someone who’s physically there. You can find critique partners and meet over Zoom. I think it’s so important to find that, that community and to help each other and to be good artist...
“Who am I if I’m not doing this, you know? It’s so much of your personality, it’s more than a profession. It’s like a lifestyle because you sacrifice so much. You put so much in, so you can’t really leave it.” ~ Sören...
“The words that I was saying to myself, whenever I doubted, I would say, ‘Why not me?’ You go into these stores and you see all these New York Times bestsellers and you think, ‘Oh, I can never do that.’ And then I started saying,...
“Well, I’ve learned to absorb every kind of constructive criticism. I used to be quite resistant to it, but, I’ve learned to absorb constructive criticism and it’s a very important skill in life, I find. You know, don’t just throw...
