Ive Spent My Whole Life Working In

I Write About What I Know And What I Have Experienced. This Keeps Me An "honest" Writer.

Humor Has Historically Been Tied To The Mores Of The Day. The Yellow Kid Was Predicated On What People Thought Was Funny About The Immigrant Irish. When You're Different In A Society, You're Funny.

A Key To My Thinking Has Always Been The Almost Fanatical Belief That What I Was Engaged In Was A Literary Art Form. That Belief Was Compounded Out Of Ego And Necessity, I Guess, A Combination Of The Two.

Ive Spent My Whole Life Working In A Medium That Was Regarded With Contempt Largely Because Of Historical Reasons.

Before World War Ii, I Was Living A Very Cloistered Existence, As Most Cartoonists Do. The Work I Was Pouring Out Did Not Come From Any Real, Personal Life Experience; This Was All The Residue Of The Accumulation Of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, All The Short-story Writers That I'd Been Reading.