MAX CANNON

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

People are essentially red meat. They are.

People get really caught up in their own trips.

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between.

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige.

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.

But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.

Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about.

I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come.

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

I wanted to be a painter.

That's not so important to me, that time thing.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.