I Learned To Distrust Writers Who Talked

The Artwork Had Very Little To Do With The Thought Process, And The Writing Too, For That Matter. What Happens, Happens, And It Happens Outside The Brain.

I Was Never Interested In The Two-party System Per Se. I Was Interested In How Authority Was Abused By Government, And How Lies Were Told, And Rewritten, To Seem To Be True. I Came Up Out Of A Tradition Of Radical Journalism.

I've Never Met A Cartoonist Who Isn't Quirky Or Weird In Some Ways.

In The Depression, Besides Everybody Being Poor, Our Entertainment Was Much More Primitive And Innocent. The Comic Strip, Which I So Venerated, Was Still A Very New Form. Movies Had Just Become Talkies. Radio Had Just Gone Coast To Coast For The First Time. Network Radio Had Just Begun When I Was A Kid. So All Of These Forms Were More Or Less In Their Infancy, And Feeling Their Oats. Comics Were Fresh And Funny And Nervy, And In A Sense, Defiant Of The Prevailing Culture.

You Know With Obama Being Elected, We Had A Wonderful Opportunity. I Hope It's Not Blown, And We Have Forms Of Government That Don't Seem To Be Up To The Level Of The Leaders Who Are Around Who Will Want To Move This Country In A Proper Direction. Where That Goes And How That Goes, I Mean, We Seem Determined To Not Move Ahead, To Stay In The Same Place. And There Are A Lot Of Nuts Out There As Well.