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Orrin Hatch Was The Keynote Speaker At The Last Meeting Of The Association Of American Editorial Cartoonists. He Sought Me Out Because He Was A Fan. I Was Thinking He Had Confused Me With Someone Else.

When I Put Together A Graphic Novel, I Don't Think About Literary Prose. I Think About Storytelling.

It's A Perfectly Valid Position To Not Like Shakespeare.

For An Ordinary Citizen, What Is The Common Interaction You Have With A Police Officer? When They Pull You Over For Speeding, Or When They Write You A Ticket For Parking. The Rest Of The Time Is Patrolling Minority Neighborhoods Like An Occupying Army. It's Suppression Of Blacks, And It's Revenue Enhancement. Surveillance Is A Band-aid. That's Like Saying, "let's Surveil The Ss." No! Let's Get Rid Of The Ss!

What People Don't Seem To Ever Understand Is That Any Infrastructure That Exists Under Your Regime, In Your Current Government, Will Be Appropriated And Inherited By The Next Regime. I Mean, The Kgb Came Out Of The Nkvd Which Came Out Of The Tsarist Version Of The Same Thing. And Now, The Fsb Operates Out Of The Old Kgb Building In Moscow. The Infrastructure Remains Exactly The Same. There's A Little Bit Of Reshuffling Of Personnel, And That's It. The Way To Make Sure That There's No Fsb Today Would Have Been For The Tsar To Not Have Built An Infrastructure For It In The 1800s.