I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.

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• Bruce Eric Kaplan:

  I've had to whine for everything I've ever really wanted.

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  Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

• Bruce Eric Kaplan:

  When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because

• Bruce Eric Kaplan:

  It's self-soothing for me to draw. So if I'm upset, drawing makes me less upset.

• Bruce Eric Kaplan:

  It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them

• Bruce Eric Kaplan:

  I loved Charles Addams more than anything. Still love him.

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  James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn'

• Bruce Eric Kaplan:

  I'm continually working on myself. Nothing ever actually works.