In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.