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.

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

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

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

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