They said they had buyers who would pay cash. It's not for sale.

Some folks get nauseous, have body cramping -- they will get lightheaded and get a sense of fatigue,

For those of us without money, without transportation, all we can do is shuffle around here, ... But I would say these businesses are treating us pretty well for the most part.

It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.

When I was nine years old I use to copy - not trace - the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.