Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.

The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

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.

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

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.

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.