I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child ….

Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30..

He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it..

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years.….

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan..

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by..

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out..

I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution..

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the univers….

If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have..

The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who read my material. The fan letter….

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

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns..

The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wante….

I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something..

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a co….

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes..

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird….

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards..

It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material..

And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies..