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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.

I Seemed To Have Instinctually A Strong Idea Of How The Strip Had To Be Written From The Beginning. That Changed Too, But It Was More In The Direction Of Where It Was Headed. I Didn't Have A Clue As To The Drawing Style, Because The Drawing Style That I Was Groomed On From The Beginning Was Newspaper Comic Strips, Which Were Much More Conventional.

Whether These Were Liberal Publications Or Conservative Publications, Whether They Were Mainstream Or Slightly To The Side Of The Mainstream; Out Of The Mainstream, They All Believed That They Had The Right To Tell You How To Stylize Yourself. And From The New York Times To The Much More Left-winged Nation. And The Voice Said, No, Whatever You Want To. You Drew Whatever You Want To, We'll Publish It. Nobody Was Doing That. Nobody Does It Today. The Voice Is No Longer That Paper, And Editorializing Is Now In The Hands Of Editors, With Few Exceptions.

I've Had Enormous Luck And Enormous Pleasure In Working In Such Forms As Movies And Plays That I Loved When I Was A Kid And I Just - Because I Could Always Write Dialogue, Because I Always Had A Sense Of How People Spoke. And Because I Had A Strong Narrative Sense; Growing Up And Loving Stories, Loving Novels, I Just Seem To Know How To Tell A Story And I Read A Lot, I Went To A Lot Of Movies, I Went To A Lot Of Plays, And It Rubbed Off On Me. And That's All. It Just Rubbed Off On Me.

I've Been Around A Long Time And I've Found That These Forms, Whether It's The Cartoon, Or Whether It's A Play, Or All These Dying Forms Refuse To Die. Something Happens To Rejuvenate Them And It Will Certainly Happen To The Political Cartoon. It Will Come Back. But Whether It's On The Internet, Or Whether It's In Some Other Form, However That Works, Whether It Looks The Way It Looks Now, Or Entirely Different, I Have No Idea. And Thank God I Don't Have To Worry About It.