The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters' foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures.

Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

I did freelance cartooning off and on from college graduation in 1991 through ABC News hiring me in 2003. I did a weekly comic strip for 'Roll Call' for about nine years. I sold cartoons and caricatures to 'The Los Angeles Times' and 'The Washington Post.' I drew as much as I could. It's really tough to make a living doing it.

As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Every man sees in his relatives and especially in his cousins a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.