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" Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback. "
Comics
Any
You
" As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table. "
Off
Table
Concerned
" Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't? "
Kid
School
Like
" Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery. "
Right
Exercise
Insecurity
" Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times. "
Day
Together
Time
" Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day. "
Days
Day
Year
" Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables. "
Ideas
Vegetables
Up
" Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. "
College
World
Been
" For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend. "
Me
Support
View
" Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds. "
Work
Content
You
" Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military. "
Humor
Break
Stigma
" I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant. "
Decide
I Can
Interesting
" I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me. "
Back
Think
War
" I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing. "
Satire
Want
View
" I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be. "
Me
Work
Up
" I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear. "
Work
Just
Me
" I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective. "
Working
Perspective
Good
" I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to. "
Think
Home
Money
" I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent. "
Day
Up
Well-Spent
" In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are. "
Views
War
Secret
" In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers. "
Think
Bad
Divorce
" In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over. "
Over
Popular
Dominant
" I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life? "
Yourself
Think
Saying
" I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day. "
Paper
Expectation
Every Day
" I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with. "
Live
Us
People
" I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career. "
Newspapers
Been
Career
" I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence. "
Time
Been
Trying
" I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination. "
Never
Imagination
Off
" Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. "
You
Up
Like
" Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint. "
Culture
Frustration
Goals
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