Writing, I Explained, Was Mainly An Attempt

And All The Things I Thought Were Mistakes And I Did Cartoons On Them. And Then I Think I Was The First Cartoonist In The Country To Attack The War In Viet Nam And That Helped Influence A Whole Generation Of Young Cartoonists Who Later On Took Up The Battle. And That Was Exciting To Know That I Had Helped Influence Work Of Young People Who Were Moving This Forum Into A Better And More Exciting Area, Out Of The More By The State That Political Cartooning Had Been In.

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.

We Want Playmates We Can Own.

That Was Exciting To Be Able To Comment On Civil Rights. I Mean, The Civil Rights Movement That Young People Don't Know About Today, But Martin Luther King Was Considered By The Establishment Press In The Early Years Of The Sit-in Movement As A Dangerous Man, And He Was The Equivalent At That Time As Malcolm X. And He Was Told To Stop His Demonstrations; They Were Against The Law And All Of That. Now That He's Sainted And Sanctified We've Forgotten.

I Learned To Distrust Writers Who Talked About How They Squeezed The Blood Onto The Typewriter. They Just Don't Want You To Know How Much Fun They Have - You'll Resent It.