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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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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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Abridged Lives Our Paperback
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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Anger Hands Heart
I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.
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Childhood Country Different
Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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Deconstruction Jokes Tears
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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Attention College Influence
And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
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Bunnies Granny Jammies
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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Issues People Thinking
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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Littles Needs Sometimes
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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Allow Artist Connection People
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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Challenges Digital Mind
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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Mind Portions Readership
Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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Elude Genius Irony
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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America College Thinking
He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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Dying Pages Want
I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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Digital Revolution Fans Mail
If you’ll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you’ll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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Dodging Fashioned Libertarian Many Old Subject

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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