Bruce Eric Kaplan

It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them. ”

Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying. ”

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression. ”

James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw. ”

When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad. ”