The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about.

We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.

Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.

Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.