Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that’d done them for a living. And I didn’t have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn’t have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.
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My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.
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And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don’t pop into mind when one sees one.
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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
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I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.
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Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he’s a professional whiner in the newspaper.
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He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
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Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.
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I knew ‘Mars Needs Moms! ‘ would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.
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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
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