Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.