Good Swiping Is An Art In Itself.

There's The Excitement Of Adding Color, Which I Didn't Know Anything About Until 1997 Or So, When I Did My First Picture Book. So, The Kid's Book In Particular Have Been Exciting For Me Because It Forced Me To Go Back To The Work I Loved As A Young Boy Reading Sunday's Supplements And Comics In The Sunday Papers When I Was Six, Seven, Eight, Nine. And Number Of Which Have Been In Wonderful Collections, Beautifully Reproduced.

And All The Things I Thought Were Mistakes And I Did Cartoons On Them. And Then I Think I Was The First Cartoonist In The Country To Attack The War In Viet Nam And That Helped Influence A Whole Generation Of Young Cartoonists Who Later On Took Up The Battle. And That Was Exciting To Know That I Had Helped Influence Work Of Young People Who Were Moving This Forum Into A Better And More Exciting Area, Out Of The More By The State That Political Cartooning Had Been In.

I Grew Up To Have My Father's Looks, My Father's Speech Patterns, My Father's Posture, My Father's Opinions, And My Mother's Contempt For My Father.

Good Swiping Is An Art In Itself.

Whether These Were Liberal Publications Or Conservative Publications, Whether They Were Mainstream Or Slightly To The Side Of The Mainstream; Out Of The Mainstream, They All Believed That They Had The Right To Tell You How To Stylize Yourself. And From The New York Times To The Much More Left-winged Nation. And The Voice Said, No, Whatever You Want To. You Drew Whatever You Want To, We'll Publish It. Nobody Was Doing That. Nobody Does It Today. The Voice Is No Longer That Paper, And Editorializing Is Now In The Hands Of Editors, With Few Exceptions.