Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

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

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

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

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

I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.