Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Cleveland is a really hard place, it's a very creative place, it feeds you creatively, but it's a very hard place to make a living creatively.

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.

MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water?

Scientific Progress goes boink?

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