Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
BERKELEY BREATHEDThe 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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I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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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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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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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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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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The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I’d wanted to do.
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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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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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The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
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I happen to think nearly everybody – especially those one might find in the odd issue of ‘People’ magazine, including me – is frightfully boring, especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.
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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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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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