My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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.
If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.
He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.
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.