If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

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

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

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

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.