But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.
Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.
If I'm writing about a modern-day suburb, there's going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I'm writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they'll be simplified, because I'm cartooning it.
Our very first grant was a seventh-grader who wanted to go to cartooning school. Another girl went to sing with the Sussex County Chorus in Europe.
You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.
We all thought it was very funny and very well done. (But) Jim has no intention of leaving cartooning and becoming a rap star.
There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
In many ways, cartooning is my therapy. I've always said they're like my diaries. It's thoughts and feelings and things I've seen on any particular day.
In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.
His approach and belief in cartooning, in believing that cartooning has a certain dignity, that's the cornerstone of this institution. I don't think there's a better person to have it named after.
Cartooning has come a long way. It started out as an adult medium, for satirical purposes; then the appeal to children got emphasized.