I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
BERKELEY BREATHEDHe comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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That’s the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
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Steve Dallas…a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He’s never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.
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He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I’d never had before. I didn’t meet the people who read my material.
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Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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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 grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.
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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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I’ll confess right here that I secretly wish I’d have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn’t exist.
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If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.
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I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.
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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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