Dave Eggers

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Dave Eggers (writer and publisher) · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

Then I had a teacher, Mrs. Dunn, that had us do it again in fifth grade.

I did another book in eighth grade.

So by the time I was in eighth grade, we'd written and illustrated and produced three books.

And then in high school, we did the first literary magazine with a computer.

So they were brand new.

It was 1986 or something.

First Macs, first desktop publishing.

And so I learned design and all of that stuff when I was 16.

And then I was just

You were set.

Booked.

I only saw myself being a cartoonist.

Like, that was all I did 24 hours a day till I was...

Maybe 13 or so.

And I thought, you know, I started the Disney animators or I wanted to be, you know, Calvin and Hobbes came about.

I was gone.

Peanuts, I studied, and all I did was draw all day.

What about like Farside?

hobby but isn't it weird like you have these amazing cartoonists him berkeley breathed and bill watterson from calvin and hobbes and they all retired at like the very top of their game like bloom county just went away like what age were they 40s 50s it's so weird because i go to the charles schultz museum up in santa rosa which is incredible yeah you go to his desk and you see all of his stuff and he worked till the very end and he was really good till the very end but it's

Uniquely, it's a job that people tend to knock off and quit at a certain point and just go out on their best note, I guess.

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