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

The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

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

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