The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

Many of the American cartoonists that want to have a job and go so much for the total right without thinking, sometimes they get a slap on the face when their politician lets them down. So it goes on and on. The thing is staying in the middle and not getting committed, trying to get the best of both and do that with a sense of humor.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

Fortunately, cartooning is not a job. It's something like eating or sleeping.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.