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

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

He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

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

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

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