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"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."
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"There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue."
"I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me."
"After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines."
"Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic."
"But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up."
"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."
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"The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about."
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"On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published."
"Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit."
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"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about."
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