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.

When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.

What state do you live in? Denial.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.