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I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line. That body of work is the one I'm proudest of.

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist, but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.