Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life where it would have been edited by various human beings before.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there and found that to be a very very sad situation.

Imagine my surprise when after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said 'If you could just give these to the publisher that would be great.' And I was about five!

We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

That Moorish architecture is all over the place of course. It affects me everywhere I see it as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.