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That Was Exciting To Be Able To Comment On Civil Rights. I Mean, The Civil Rights Movement That Young People Don't Know About Today, But Martin Luther King Was Considered By The Establishment Press In The Early Years Of The Sit-in Movement As A Dangerous Man, And He Was The Equivalent At That Time As Malcolm X. And He Was Told To Stop His Demonstrations; They Were Against The Law And All Of That. Now That He's Sainted And Sanctified We've Forgotten.

I Didn't Have A Job. Employers Were Afraid Of Losing Their Reputations. I Didn't Have A Reputation. I Had Zilch. So, I Had The Freedom, Which Unemployment Gives You, And That Was To Behave As Badly As I Believed I Should Under The Circumstances. And The Circumstances Were Quite Awful.

I Learned To Distrust Writers Who Talked About How They Squeezed The Blood Onto The Typewriter. They Just Don't Want You To Know How Much Fun They Have - You'll Resent It.

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.

Remember When You Were A Kid And The Boys Didn't Like The Girls? Only Sissies Liked Girls? What I'm Trying To Tell You Is That Nothing's Changed. You Think Boys Grow Out Of Not Liking Girls, But We Don't Grow Out Of It. We Just Grow Horny. That's The Problem. We Mix Up Liking Pussy For Liking Girls. Believe Me, One Couldn't Have Less To Do With The Other.