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With a standard editorial cartoon, you're taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite - a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it's more storytelling.

I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.

People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.

Editorial cartoons should be smart and substantive, provocative and informative. They should stir passions and deep emotions. Editorial cartoons should be the catalyst for thought, and frankly speaking, if you can make politicians think, that is an accomplishment itself.

Editorial cartoons are about concept. The illustration is merely a vehicle to convey a point of view. We're here to protect and inform the public, to attack and repel those who do not agree with our long-term shared interest.

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 have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.

I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more.