Johnny Hart on his relationship with Brant Parker

MARSCHALL: Did he have a drawing style that you liked? Did you pattern your own after his when you were starting out？
HART: Brant's? No, that's a really funny story; we had some of the greatest times together. I don't know what it is about Brant and me. It's a good thing he lives in Virginia -ー no, it's not! Because when we get together it's just Wacko Time. Brant probably makes me feel better than any other human being that I'm ever with because... I just can't explain it. He brings the wacky side of me out. When I'm with him I'm like a stand-up comic. Like a Don Rickles. Laying out one- liners and he just laughs and laughs. And it's just something, our chemistry there, and he"ll just make an aside or something, and that just gets me off on something else. The result is that we just laugh and laugh. Poor Brant, he almost expires sometimes, it's like he thinks I'm the funniest thing that exists. And he just brings it out of me. It's doesn't come out of me unless he’s around.