In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

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.

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.