My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.

Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge of drawing is that there is no one right way to visually describe something. It's a good thing to confront your limitations and preconceptions every so often.

Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in... But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

Saturday morning cartoons do that now, where they develop the toy and then draw the cartoon around it, and the result is the cartoon is a commercial for the toy and the toy is a commercial for the cartoon. The same thing's happening now in comic strips; it's just another way to get the competitive edge. You saturate all the different markets and allow each other to advertise the other, and it's the best of all possible worlds. You can see the financial incentive to work that way. I just think it's to the detriment of integrity in comic strip art.

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.