I've Never Met A Cartoonist Who Isn't

Over The Years, I Discovered Over And Over Again That Once You Lose Control, You Have A Chance Of Getting Good At It. And Once You're Controlling The Work, It's Not Going To Be Very Good, Or It Won't Be As Good As It Should Be.

You Know With Obama Being Elected, We Had A Wonderful Opportunity. I Hope It's Not Blown, And We Have Forms Of Government That Don't Seem To Be Up To The Level Of The Leaders Who Are Around Who Will Want To Move This Country In A Proper Direction. Where That Goes And How That Goes, I Mean, We Seem Determined To Not Move Ahead, To Stay In The Same Place. And There Are A Lot Of Nuts Out There As Well.

Cartoons Were Very Conservative. The Country Was Very Conservative. Although The Liberals Were Allegedly In Charge For A Long Time, There Was A Very Acceptable Balance What People Would Talk About In Public. And I Wanted To Stretch Those And Move Further Out. And As The Civil Rights Movement Began, I Started Doing Cartoons On That And On Sit-ins And I Was, Along With Bill Mauldin, A Great Cartoonist Out Of World War Ii, Arguably One Of Two White Cartoonists Doing This Kind Of Work, Bill And Me.

Remember When You Were A Kid And The Boys Didn't Like The Girls? Only Sissies Liked Girls? What I'm Trying To Tell You Is That Nothing's Changed. You Think Boys Grow Out Of Not Liking Girls, But We Don't Grow Out Of It. We Just Grow Horny. That's The Problem. We Mix Up Liking Pussy For Liking Girls. Believe Me, One Couldn't Have Less To Do With The Other.

Eventually, If It's On Your Mind, You Stumble On It. You Need A Certain Amount Of Luck And Persistence.