God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start

I don't just try to be funny.

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.