Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
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.
I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.
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 mu...
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, wh...