I'm Well Beyond Dyslexic: I Have No

Imagination Continually Frustrates Tradition; That Is Its Function.

There's No Rap Against Comics That Isn't True. They Were Sexist, They Were Racist, You Name It - And They Kind Of Gloried In That.

I Seemed To Have Instinctually A Strong Idea Of How The Strip Had To Be Written From The Beginning. That Changed Too, But It Was More In The Direction Of Where It Was Headed. I Didn't Have A Clue As To The Drawing Style, Because The Drawing Style That I Was Groomed On From The Beginning Was Newspaper Comic Strips, Which Were Much More Conventional.

My Success Was The Shock Of Recognition, Probably, Rather Than The Quality Of The Work. I Mean, The Quality May Have Been Fine, But There's A Lot Of Fine Work Out There. It Was The Fact That I Was Doing Something That At That Time, Nobody Else Was Doing, Except For Say, Mort Saul Out In San Francisco On The Hungry Eye, And "second City" Was Emerging Out In Chicago. Nothing In Print. It Was Basically Happening In Cabaret And Nothing In Fiction. And Certainly Nothing In New York In Cartoons.

I've Been Around A Long Time And I've Found That These Forms, Whether It's The Cartoon, Or Whether It's A Play, Or All These Dying Forms Refuse To Die. Something Happens To Rejuvenate Them And It Will Certainly Happen To The Political Cartoon. It Will Come Back. But Whether It's On The Internet, Or Whether It's In Some Other Form, However That Works, Whether It Looks The Way It Looks Now, Or Entirely Different, I Have No Idea. And Thank God I Don't Have To Worry About It.