I've Never Met A Cartoonist Who Isn't

Eventually, If It's On Your Mind, You Stumble On It. You Need A Certain Amount Of Luck And Persistence.

Be Warned Against All 'good' Advice Because 'good' Advice Is Necessarily 'safe' Advice, And Though It Will Undoubtedly Follow A Sane Pattern, It Will Very Likely Lead One Into Total Sterility--one Of The Crushing Problems Of Our Time.

Writing, I Explained, Was Mainly An Attempt To Out-argue One's Past; To Present Events In Such A Light That Battles Lost In Life Were Either Won On Paper Or Held To A Draw.

I Don't Know How Comic Artists Feed Their Families, If They Do. But It's A Fascinating Form And So I Think That After A Long Period Of Nothing Happening And Work, Nothing Very Impressive, We Are Into Another Golden Age Of Comics. Unfortunately, It's Not A Golden Age For The Artists Themselves Economically. I Don't Know How They Get Along.

When I Am Working A Book, I Go Through My Library And Take A Look Through Some Of The Great Cartoonists Of The Past, Like Cliff Sterrett, Who Did "polly And Her Pals," Or Winsor Mccay Who Did "a Little Nemo In Slumberland," And Herriman - And I Just Looked Through These Guys And Looked For Somebody To Steal. You Know, Looked For Who I Could Swipe, Or Turn Into - Who's Work I Will Turn Into My Work. And I Still Use, After All These Years, These Artists As Inspirations. So, Here In My Eighties, I Go Back To When I Was Eight For My Inspiration.