My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

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

The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who read my material. The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that'd done them for a living. And I didn't have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn't have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.

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.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.