Cartooning Was A Good Fit For Me.

I Get A Couple Cups Of Coffee Into Me And Weird Things Just Start To Happen.

I Think It's Vital To Be Honest With Yourself. You Do Have To Satisfy Yourself First. If You're Drawing Something, You Have To Ask Yourself If It's Something You Genuinely Think Is Funny. Or Is It Starting To Fall Into Just A Category, Just Kind Of A Shtick Thing? I Think It's Important For All Cartoonists To Be Honest With Themselves About Their Own Sense Of Humor And What They're Doing.

A Long Time Ago, I Became Aware That Many Of Us Have A Tendency To Lump Nature Into Simplistic Categories, Such As What We Consider Beautiful Or Ugly, Important Or Unimportant. As Human A Thing As That Is To Do, I Think It Often Leads Us To Misunderstand The Respective Roles Of Life Forms And Their Interconnectedness.

People Try To Look For Deep Meanings In My Work. I Want To Say, 'they're Just Cartoons, Folks. You Laugh Or You Don't.' Gee, I Sound Shallow. But I Don't React To Current Events Or Other Stimuli. I Don't Read Or Watch Tv To Get Ideas. My Work Is Basically Sitting Down At The Drawing Table And Getting Silly.

Usually When I Sat Down To Draw A Cartoon, It Would Be More Of A Reflection Of Things In My Past. Or It Could Be Something I Had Experienced That Morning, Or That Week, Or Something I Might Know That's Part Of My Background.