It is contemporary and it appeals to current artists and current designers as well as everybody and anybody that enjoys cartoons.

The visual vocabulary and aesthetics of the cartoon have influenced graphic artists and advertising style since the 1940s. An example of this in advertising would be Pop Art, and more recently [seen] in the feature film 'Sin City'.

Philosophically, that could take me a lot of places.

You don't see luck as an accident. It's a meaningful synchronicity.

I did not have the dreams that the other artists working with me had, of 'moving uptown,' becoming an illustrator or a gallery painter, or those others who said, 'I'm going to go uptown and be a writer, I'm going to work for The New Yorker one day and escape this ghetto.' For me, there was no escape.

The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.