Quotes from Max Cannon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

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

People get really caught up in their own trips.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.