It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them.
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'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.
I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.
It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.
Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.'
I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time.
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.
Most of my work - including everything from my own comics to the covers I've drawn for 'The New Yorker' - is the result of taking some personal experience or observation and then fictionalizing it to a degree.
Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.
Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.
My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues.
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