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Are. jack anderson used to insist his column appear on the congress page of the "the washington post" because thats where the readers were. in the early days the red lines were less clear to me. i did something incredibly inane. i put together this questionnaire with a checklist and sent it out to a dozen high-level editors around the country. i said, which of these subjects do you think are appropriate for the comic stage? marijuana, politics rock and roll. >> what year did do you this? >> i wa...

Column appear on the congress page of the "the washington post" because thats where the readers were. in the early days the red lines were less clear to me. i did something incredibly inane. i put together this questionnaire with a checklist and sent it out to a dozen high-level editors around the country. i said, which of these subjects do you think are appropriate for the comic stage? marijuana, politics rock and roll. >> what year did do you this? >> i was probably 22 23. it was an inane thin...

My career was not my idea. it was the idea of an editor who pick immediate out of my student newspaper my junior year and gave me the job i still hold. i dont know what he was thinking. i didnt have the skillset most people would associate with creating a comic strip. i think he liked my perspective. thereafter, because i had been doing it in college, i had no editor. i had no clear sense of what i could do on the comic stage and what i couldnt. so i was constantly being kicked out of newspapers...

Vietnam? >> i dont know what it was. my career was not my idea. it was the idea of an editor who picked me out of my student newspaper my junior year and gave me the job i still hold. i dont know what he was thinking. i didnt have the skillset most people would associate with creating a comic strip. i think he liked my perspective. thereafter, because i had been doing it in college, i had no editor. i had no clear sense of what i could do on the comic stage and what i couldnt. so i was constantl...