Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.