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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.

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.

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.

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.

Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues.

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!

Cartoon violence is something very vivid and dark but made palatable for children in a fun way. That's the kind of comedy I do - I try to take subjects that might seem deep and make them as silly as possible.