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.

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.

Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

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.