If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.
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.
I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.
There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.
I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist.
Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.
When people ask me what is an editorial cartoonist, I often say we're kind of a hybrid. We're a cross between Edward R. Morrow, Ted Koppel and the Son of Sam.
The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.
I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.