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00:00Do I want my art to be a threat to the dominant culture?
00:06Yes.
00:07Everybody can think differently, so therefore, everybody will think differently.
00:12So get used to it.
00:14Don't take it personally.
00:15Like the kid in the back of the class who thought the teacher's full of shit and these
00:19other smartasses don't know what they're talking about.
00:21He's drawing some wild little cartoon, you know, mocking it all.
00:28If he'd go out shopping or something, he'd leave me a little note to let me know where
00:31he was.
00:32I went for a walk.
00:33He's lying in a puddle of blood.
00:35He is doing really what editorial cartoonists are meant to do.
00:39This guy has balls.
00:46I think it's the responsibility of every artist to reflect the times in which they live.
00:51That's why Mr. Fish's work is really important.
00:53It's not a dying profession.
00:55It is a profession that is being systematically murdered.
00:59What editors like are funny little jokes that offend no one.
01:03He doesn't play the way you play if you want to be rewarded.
01:07I get a little squeamish when the audience treats cartoons as something quaint, as something
01:13cute.
01:14I want cartooning to be dangerous, and I want it to be something more than just ink on paper.
01:25I think it's the responsibility of every editor to reflect the times in which they live.
01:29That's why Mr. Fish's work is really important.