The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.

Many of the American cartoonists that want to have a job and go so much for the total right without thinking, sometimes they get a slap on the face when their politician lets them down. So it goes on and on. The thing is staying in the middle and not getting committed, trying to get the best of both and do that with a sense of humor.

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you’re drawing it.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.

If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement.

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.