A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!

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

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

And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.