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

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

The ability to be funny is pretty widespread in the population.

I'm very fond of the strictly visual cartoons I did when I was breaking in in the 1970's. Over time I migrated to a more verbal approach.

When you look back at the older cartoons, they're very much more observational cartoons. And the cartoon, the people in the cartoons are not making the joke.

Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity is often masked when your in a group because laughter is contagious.

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