I Was Doing Cartoons And Mocking White

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.

The City Keeps Reinventing Itself. And Each Generation Thinks, As They Enter It, That They've Missed The Best Of It, And Then They Become The Authors Of The Next "best." And So It Goes On And On And On. And New York Keeps Redefining Itself And Reinventing Itself, And Then You Look At It And It's Pretty Much The Way It Was Back In The 1920's., Or In The 1930's. Something Stylistically Different In Some Ways, But It's Still Got The Same Vitality.

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 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.

Kids Are In Ongoing Need Of Support, And They Get Various Versions Of It From Grownups Which Aren't Legitimate - A Grownup's Version Of What We Think You Should Have. We Tell You What Creativity Is, And We Even Tell You What You're Thinking.