You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is the sum total of all your past moves...but first you have to make some kind of move.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

When I draw, I rule the world.

When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.