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

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

The digital realm give cartoons and cartoonists more possibilities for exposure.

There's all kinds of theories among the cartoonists: start with funniest, end with funniest.

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

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.

There's usually nothing in a guy's joke in which we have to understand what's going on in someone else's mind.