I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

Correct me if I'm wrong - the gizmo is connected to the flingflang connected to the watzis, watzis connected to the doo-dad connected to the ding dong.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.