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Once a week, I am a very desperate man.
There is nothing worse than annotated humour.
Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.
Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.
The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.
I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.
At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.
In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe.
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are
In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.
Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.
I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.
Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.
I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.
Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.
Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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 well-spent.
I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
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 write happy endings.
Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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 in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.
At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.
I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.
Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.
Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.
Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.