When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 used to think of the cartoons as a magazine within a magazine. First you go through and read all the cartoons, and then you go back and read the articles.
Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.
There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue.
It's sometimes hard to wrap your head around a big story, and for most of us drawing editorial cartoons 9/11/ 01, that was the biggest story of our professional lives.
People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.
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.
It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.