I can look at those old cartoons I drew when I was, like, eight, and their personalities were intact, even then. Yeah, I did. And I did want to have my own characters. So I doodled around and made up all sorts of them. I think all kids do.
All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters.
They just grow out of them, and I didn't. And for some reason, the Bones were the ones that stuck with me. Out of all the ones I used to draw as a kid, those were the ones that kept reappearing absent-mindedly in the margins of my school papers, climbing up the blue stripes that you're supposed to write on, then falling off again and crashing to the bottom of the page. Not really, although I had a very good teacher in high school who pushed me toward art school. I'm not sure I had any clear idea of where I wanted to go.