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.

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

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

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.

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

I think any good cartoon sums things up for people. It's kind of ironic we appear on the editorial pages of newspapers, but now of course we're transferring over to the net, and that gets a lot more attention.

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