Man, I put myself in a lot of comic strips. Something's wrong with my sense of self.

I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.

The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about.

When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.

If you see me on the comics page, you assume total smart-ass, with no regard to the older strips, ... When it comes to Peanuts, at least, it couldn't be further from the truth. I probably know more than anybody you'd ever meet.

Sticking to my schedule, I've gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a 'Pearls Before Swine' movie script for the big screen.