• I was drawing professionally by the time I was 12. I used to do very detailed sort of photorealistic pen-and-ink work, and I burned out on it around, like, high school. And cartooning really got me back into drawing.

    Dan Povenmire: I was drawing professionally by the time I was 12. I used to do very detailed sort of photorealistic pen-and-ink work, and I burned out on it around, like, high school. And cartooning really got me back into drawing.
    "We Just Keep Trying to Beat Every Show With the Funny Stick Until It's Funny". Interview with Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. June 10, 2015.