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Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.

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.

But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

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

Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.

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.

The wonderful thing about the cartoon form is it's a combination of words and pictures. You don't have to choose, and the contribution of the two often winds up being greater than the sum of its parts.

A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.

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.