If you look at a cartoon on a computer screen, it really jumps and can be quite effective.

I think it's important to understand that a cartoonist is not drawing for favourable reviews from politicians. What we're trying to do is capture the popular feeling of the time about a politician or a particular political issue. For that reason I think it sums up public attitudes that is very helpful to historians down the road.

A good cartoon, what it does, is sum up a situation, very neatly, as opposed to reading a lot of articles and so on.

A contemporary politician has to be cognizant of things that are going on.

Despite that sort of reputation that Canada has of being a boring place, we really have produced really interesting politicians.

For a young cartoonist, they have to get going on the web, because that's where everybody goes for their information. And it really works.

I drew a vicious cartoon of an Islamic extremist as a dog, knowing full well what an insult that was is in the Islamic world. Furthermore, I added an apology to dogs everywhere (being a dog lover myself).