Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.
I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.
I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.