Remember that when you truly want something, the entire Universe conspires to make it happen.
Fortunately, cartooning is not a job. It's something like eating or sleeping.
If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement.
At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.
My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different. . . totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before.
Many of the American cartoonists that want to have a job and go so much for the total right without thinking, sometimes they get a slap on the face when their politician lets them down. So it goes on and on. The thing is staying in the middle and not getting committed, trying to get the best of both and do that with a sense of humor.
I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.
I think that there are a lot of great studio people but the fewer voices in my head when I'm getting out a draft, the better. I just get it out and then I'll listen to all manner of good ideas. And that's what happens, too, when I'm touring and doing a character on stage.
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.