Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.

Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.