Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

I hate smoothies. Because they won't offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.

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.

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.