I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.
I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
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. The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that'd done them for a living. And I didn't have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn't have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.
The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.
My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
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.
If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.
I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.
He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.
I hate smoothies. Because they won't offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.
