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

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

I think The New Yorker's cartoons aren't very political because the people who do the cartoons aren't awfully political people, and they aren't paid to be political. I think editorial cartoonists are. That's what they do. They probably have a great natural interest in politics, and then they are paid to do it, so they sort of have to hunt out these ideas. I admire editorial cartoons, but I'm also sort of happy that I don't do them because I'd hate to have to label things and I'd especially hate, more than anything, to label something Dennis Hastert or Mark Foley.

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.

You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's true of art and everything else.

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

There are no cartoons about happy marriages.