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Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.

James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.

For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.

There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.

Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how it evolves over time more quickly than we can with a form like the novel.

Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons.

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.