In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

Obviously the role of comics is changing very fast. On the one hand, comics are widely accepted and taken seriously. On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.

I'll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.

Girls are like slugs - they probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.

Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?