I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.