The score is still Q to 12!

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.

United Features had given me a development contract, which meant I was to work exclusively with them and rather than completing everything on my own and turning it in to them and having it rejected or accepted, I was working much more directly with the syndicate, turning in smaller batches much more frequently, and getting comments on them. The idea was that they would help me develop the strip and then, assuming that they liked it, it would flow into a normal contract for syndication.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.