Max Cannon

I wanted to be a painter.

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

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

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

People get really caught up in their own trips.

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.

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People are essentially red meat. They are.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

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

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