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

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

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

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.

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.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.