Who Stole My Vocabulary? If you’ve worked for any amount of time — and particularly if you’ve worked in any large, bureaucratic organizations for more than 20 or 30 seconds — you’ve likely borne witness to a phenomenon psychiatrists, psychologists,...
Innovative Brutes But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going … I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one...
Unwitnesses There are few things we enjoy as much as idle musing. After all, when you’re in the business of creating cartoons, you only have two reliable sources of material: (1) idle musing and (2) people-watching. And with very few exceptions, that’s a...
Y’all Pass Me That Bottle What Night Train Express and Thunderbird are to vintage wines, Ventura Publisher is to graphic design. In 1986 (yeah, we were there), Ventura Publisher begat what came to be known as desktop publishing. That opened the world of graphic...
A Bridge Too Far We love cartoons. The only thing we might love more than cartoons is language. And the only thing we might love more than language is the way it’s tortured, twisted, and traumatized — wittingly or unwittingly — in people’s attempts to...
Aiming Is Not Driving We’ve decided to change our business model. That’s right. Effective immediately, whenever we’re asked to create a white paper, we’re going to create it at no charge. Thereafter, however, we’re going to charge five...
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