I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
From Berkeley Breathed
If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.
If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.
Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.
I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
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.
That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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