I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.

I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.