He Comic Page Is Dying; I Didn't

If I Could Have Drawn A Cat Yelling For Lasagna Every Day For 15 Years And Have Them Pay Me $30 Million To Do So, I Would Have.

I Can Say That Even In The Midst Of My Most Cynical Comic Stripping: Opus Shone Through With A Bit Of Heart, Anchoring The Ugly Proceedings With A Comforting Pull Of Emotion.

Liberal, Shmiberal. That Should Be A New Word. Shmiberal: One Who Is Assumed Liberal, Just Because He's A Professional Whiner In The Newspaper. If You'll Read The Subtext For Many Of Those Old Strips, You'll Find The Heart Of An Old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd Be A Libertarian, If They Weren't All A Bunch Of Tax-dodging Professional Whiners.

Irony Can Elude The Genius Among Us, Sometimes.

Cartooning Is About Deconstruction: You Gotta Tear Something Down To Make A Joke.