I never thought I honestly would make a living out of it. I did cartoons for the high school paper and then the college paper and then when I got out I was working in advertising. I was just a pay-stub artist, a layout artist, but I got to meet Tom Ryan, who does the Tumbleweeds comic strip. He lived in Muncie and I asked him how he got started and he liked my stuff and asked me to be his assistant. This was back in 1969.


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Jim Davis Quotes

I never thought I honestly would make a living out of it. I did cartoons for the high school paper and then the college paper and then when I got out ...

I never thought I honestly would make a living out of it. I did cartoons for the high school paper and then the college paper and then when I got out ...

I never thought I honestly would make a living out of it. I did cartoons for the high school paper and then the college paper and then when I got out ...

I never thought I honestly would make a living out of it. I did cartoons for the high school paper and then the college paper and then when I got out ...