Cartooning has come a long way. It started out as an adult medium, for satirical purposes; then the appeal to children got emphasized.
There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.
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.
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.
Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.
We all thought it was very funny and very well done. (But) Jim has no intention of leaving cartooning and becoming a rap star.
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.
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.