I write separately from the inking up. I'm sure this varies from cartoonist to cartoonist; I find that the writing is the hard part and the drawing is the fun part.

Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! ...Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.

Few things are less comforting than a tiger who's up too late.

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.

The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.

I think the experience forced me to consider how interested I was in political cartooning. After I was fired, I applied to other papers but political cartooning, like all cartooning, is a very tough field to break into. Newspapers are very reluctant to hire their own cartoonists when they can get Oliphant or MacNelly through syndication for a twentieth of the price.