Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost hear Percy Gloom's meek, docile little voice. Her writing is so full of wit and charm that we, like the title character, walk dutifully to the edge and fall in. And like Percy, we are rewarded equally with night terrors and secret treasures.

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

I think people have a little wall they throw up real quick if they see swords and sorcery.