People Go Into Cartooning Because

I Had Been Drawing My Weekly Comic Strip, 'life In Hell,' For About Five Years When I Got A Call From Jim Brooks, Who Was Developing 'the Tracey Ullman Show' For The Brand-new Fox Network. He Wanted Me To Come In And Pitch An Idea For Doing Little Cartoons On That Show.

In 'futurama,' The Skin Color Is No Longer Yellow. They Have Actually Evolved To Cartoon Skin Tone. But They Still Have Four Fingers.

Love Is A Perky Elf Dancing A Merry Little Jig And Then Suddenly He Turns On You With A Miniature Machine Gun.

You've Got To Embrace The Future. You Can Whine About It, But You've Got To Embrace It.

With 'futurama,' I Was Just Worried That Somebody Would Beat Us To It; It Seemed So Obvious That There Should Be An Animated Science Fiction Show Set In The Future. And One Of The Reasons Why It's Not, I Learned, Is That It's Really, Really Difficult.