I Believe That Children Are Our Future.

The Simpsons And Futurama Are Such Big Projects, Going On For Years And Working In Different Media, That Everything Involved With Them, Promotion And Merchandise And Online Presence And All The Rest, Deserve To Be Scrutinized, So That's Part Of It. I Have A Great Deal Of Sympathy For Anyone At The Core Of A Multimedia Juggernaut, Even If You Might Not Care For The Specific Pop-culture Invasion Of Your Brain. The People Who Do It Work Really Hard.

I Went Through A Phase Where People Would Introduce Me At Parties As A Cartoonist, And Everybody Felt Sorry For Me. 'oh, Matt's A Cartoonist.' Then People Further Feeling Sorry For Me Would Ask Me To Draw Garfield. Because I'm A Cartoonist, Draw Snoopy Or Garfield Or Something.

I Think In Daily Newspapers, The Way Comic Strips Are Treated, It's As If Newspaper Publishers Are Going Out Of Their Way To Kill The Medium. They're Printing The Comics So Small That Most Strips Are Just Talking Heads, And If You Look Back At The Glory Days Of Comic Strips, You Can See That They Were Showcases For Some Of The Best Pop Art Ever To Come Out.

You've Got To Embrace The Future. You Can Whine About It, But You've Got To Embrace It.

I Always Thought That Television Was The Way To Go In My Goal To Invade Pop Culture Because It Got To Towns In Which There Were No Bookstores. That's How I Used To Think Of It: How Do I Reach Kids Who Not Only Don't Read But Probably Have No Access To Much In The Way Of Books?