Kids Are In Ongoing Need Of Support,

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 Think We Overrate Experience And What We've Been Through In Terms Of Our Success At Doing The Work We Do. There Are Many People Who Get Beat Up, Who Suffer, Who Are Victimized, And Then They Sit Down To Write And They Write Crap.

I Was Never Interested In The Two-party System Per Se. I Was Interested In How Authority Was Abused By Government, And How Lies Were Told, And Rewritten, To Seem To Be True. I Came Up Out Of A Tradition Of Radical Journalism.

At The Time, Liberals Didn't Understand That They Had First Amendment Rights. So, I Was Doing Cartoons In This Narrative Cartoon Form About Subject Surrounding That And As I Was Turned Down By Editor After Editor At Each Publishing House, I Began To Notice On Their Desks This New Newspaper Called The Village Voice, Which I Then Went And Picked Up And Thought, Well My God, These Editors That Were Turning Me Down All, Whom Tell Me How Much They Like My Stuff, But They Don't Know How To Market It Because Nobody Knows Who I Am. If I Got Into This Paper, They Would Know Who I Am.

Good Swiping Is An Art In Itself.