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“If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.”

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I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

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If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

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When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.

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Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has one of…

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I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics.

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