Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

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 try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

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.

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

Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.