a wonderful way of studying history. |
Cartoonists gave away their work, and syndicates and newspapers with archives didn't know what to do with them, so they just backed up their trucks and gave us 10,000 at a time. |
He brought a whole new attitude toward the comics, ... He brought pathos and the attitudes you know that all real children have of rejection and failure ... and he somehow made them funny. |
He did something entirely different from what all the rest of us did. I write and draw funny pictures and slapstick; it's a joke a day. He delved into the psyche of children and the fears and the rejections that we all felt as children. |
He was Charlie Brown, |
I decided these things had to be preserved. I think it's very exciting. |
I was banned from Stars and Stripes because I was detrimental to discipline. That got me news stories and got me published all over the world and boosted my circulation like nothing (else). |
I'm so confident that I mortgaged my home to pay all the expenses so far. I wouldn't do that to my wife. |
It's just such a part of your life. You take a breath of Blondie every morning, |
It's just such a part of your life. You take a breath of Blondie every morning. |
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. |
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. |
My wife would sometimes say, 'Why don't you give up,' ... But I'm not a giving-up kind of person. Once you start something like this, you can't just walk away. |
Seven days without laughter makes one weak. |
They gave us free land and said they would help us raise money. |