Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders?

The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

I would like to fire every cop in America and start from scratch. We don't need as many of them, and the whole model of policing is completely off the rails. For the most part, the police are engaged in very little protection of the public. That's probably 5 percent of what they do. The rest of it is writing tickets.