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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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"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'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me."
"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."
"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."
"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."
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