- Nov 07, 2020
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- Insecurity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Complete Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
- Nov 07, 2020
In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.
- Decisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.
- Dominant
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- Nov 07, 2020
In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing worse than annotated humour.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020