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“I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.”

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In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

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Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or…

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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted…

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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

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Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

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There is nothing worse than annotated humour,

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Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're…

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For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally…

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America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they…

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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day…

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