Maturity Is Only A Short Break In

I Used To Think I Was Poor. Then They Told Me I Was Not Poor, I Was Needy. They Told Me It Was Self-defeating To Think Of Myself As Needy, I Was Deprived. Then They Told Me Underprivileged Was Overused. I Was Disadvantaged. I Still Do Not Have A Dime But I Have A Great Vocabulary.

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.

I Think A Play Can Do Almost Anything, Because It's Also A Static Form, Much More So Than In A Movie. In A Movie You Can Move The Scenery, You Can Do Anything Any Way. A Cartoon, Happens In A Limited Amount Of Space And A Limited Amount Of Time, And You Can Only Get So Many Words Before The Reader's Gonna Get Impatient. All Of These Forms That I Enjoy Are In A Sense A Slight Of Hand, Where You Have To Suggest Much More Than You Really Show. You Have To, In A Sense, Seduce The Reader And Trick The Reader Or The Audience Into Going With You.

That Was Exciting To Be Able To Comment On Civil Rights. I Mean, The Civil Rights Movement That Young People Don't Know About Today, But Martin Luther King Was Considered By The Establishment Press In The Early Years Of The Sit-in Movement As A Dangerous Man, And He Was The Equivalent At That Time As Malcolm X. And He Was Told To Stop His Demonstrations; They Were Against The Law And All Of That. Now That He's Sainted And Sanctified We've Forgotten.

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.