When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

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.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

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

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

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 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.