Maturity Is Only A Short Break In

It Is Not Size Or Age That Separates Children From Adults. It Is Responsibility.

Getting Out Of Bed In The Morning Is An Act Of False Confidence.

In The Depression, Besides Everybody Being Poor, Our Entertainment Was Much More Primitive And Innocent. The Comic Strip, Which I So Venerated, Was Still A Very New Form. Movies Had Just Become Talkies. Radio Had Just Gone Coast To Coast For The First Time. Network Radio Had Just Begun When I Was A Kid. So All Of These Forms Were More Or Less In Their Infancy, And Feeling Their Oats. Comics Were Fresh And Funny And Nervy, And In A Sense, Defiant Of The Prevailing Culture.

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.

I'm Not Electronically Geared At All; I'm Really A 19th Century Cartoonist. I Have A 15-year-old Daughter, And What She's Attracted To Is Of Course Ipod And This Pod And That, I Mean Stuff I Don't Even Begin To Know - I Never Learned How To Type For Christ's Sake! I Can't Get In Her Head And Find Out What She Would Do If She Had The Kind Of Talent I Had, I Don't Have A Clue. Every Generation Comes Up With Its Own Quirkiness And Its Own Culture Which Gets Its Inspiration From What's In The Air At That Time.