We Are All Continually Embarking On First

There's The Excitement Of Adding Color, Which I Didn't Know Anything About Until 1997 Or So, When I Did My First Picture Book. So, The Kid's Book In Particular Have Been Exciting For Me Because It Forced Me To Go Back To The Work I Loved As A Young Boy Reading Sunday's Supplements And Comics In The Sunday Papers When I Was Six, Seven, Eight, Nine. And Number Of Which Have Been In Wonderful Collections, Beautifully Reproduced.

The Weekly Cartoons, As Were My Plays, Came From A Sense Of Criticism, Criticism Of The Times, Critical Of The Culture, Of Our Manners And Attitudes Towards Each Other. The Children's Books Come From The Reverse. They're More Supportive, Since We're Living In A Time Where We Talk More About Kids And Do Less, We Talk About Balancing The Budget And We Do It By Cutting Education.

I Come Out Of A Cold War Sensibility, A Cold War Mentality, And During Those Cold War Years, I Used To Know, I Thought, The Answers To Everything. And Since The End Of The Cold War, I'm Just A Dumb As Everyone Else.

I'm Well Beyond Dyslexic: I Have No Sense Of Direction; I Never Know Where I Am.

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