We Want Playmates We Can Own.

I've Never Met A Cartoonist Who Isn't Quirky Or Weird In Some Ways.

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.

There's Some Brain Damage, But It May Be That Very Brain Damage That Allows Me To Do The Work I Do.

Whatever New York Loses, If You Go To Other Cities Around The World, Or Around The Country, New York Still Has A Kind Of Energy Level You Find Nowhere Else. Paris Doesn't Have It, London Doesn't Have It, San Francisco, A Great City, Doesn't Have It.

I Was Doing Cartoons And Mocking White Liberals, Mocking The Attitude Of Government Who Said To Go Slow, While Intending To Do Absolutely Nothing For Black People, Then Called Negroes. And I Had A Lot Of Fun And I Expressed A Lot Of Anger. That Was A Thing That Was Important To Know At That Time. As I Was Emerging Into More And More Into Politics That I Was Angry.