There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

If you have any problems at all, don't hesitate to shut up.

A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself...

Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.

Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.

To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting stuff, taking the old cliches and breathing new life into them and inventing new ones. This doesn't mean the previous generation of which I'm a charter member isn't doing good stuff but this new material is invigorating everyone.

Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.