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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.

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

I do love editorials - you're free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.

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.

The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.