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Cartoons Were Very Conservative. The Country Was Very Conservative. Although The Liberals Were Allegedly In Charge For A Long Time, There Was A Very Acceptable Balance What People Would Talk About In Public. And I Wanted To Stretch Those And Move Further Out. And As The Civil Rights Movement Began, I Started Doing Cartoons On That And On Sit-ins And I Was, Along With Bill Mauldin, A Great Cartoonist Out Of World War Ii, Arguably One Of Two White Cartoonists Doing This Kind Of Work, Bill And Me.

If You Are Not Able To Communicate Successfully Between Yourself And Yourself, How Are You Supposed To Make It With The Strangers Outside?

I Think A Play Can Do Almost Anything, Because It's Also A Static Form, Much More So Than In A Movie. In A Movie You Can Move The Scenery, You Can Do Anything Any Way. A Cartoon, Happens In A Limited Amount Of Space And A Limited Amount Of Time, And You Can Only Get So Many Words Before The Reader's Gonna Get Impatient. All Of These Forms That I Enjoy Are In A Sense A Slight Of Hand, Where You Have To Suggest Much More Than You Really Show. You Have To, In A Sense, Seduce The Reader And Trick The Reader Or The Audience Into Going With You.

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.

I've Had Enormous Luck And Enormous Pleasure In Working In Such Forms As Movies And Plays That I Loved When I Was A Kid And I Just - Because I Could Always Write Dialogue, Because I Always Had A Sense Of How People Spoke. And Because I Had A Strong Narrative Sense; Growing Up And Loving Stories, Loving Novels, I Just Seem To Know How To Tell A Story And I Read A Lot, I Went To A Lot Of Movies, I Went To A Lot Of Plays, And It Rubbed Off On Me. And That's All. It Just Rubbed Off On Me.