Hal Foster on drawing in other cartooning styles

SABA:...Let me ask you if you've ever developed a taste for a totally different kind of cartooning, such as the, say, the Walt Disney style, or that kind of funny cartooning. Have you ever enjoyed that sort of thing?
FOSTER: Yes. Oh, yes.
SABA: It's very different, of course.
FOSTER: I don't know why it is that some fellows can a draw a little kid like, what's his name, Charlie Brown, a little kid like that, with just a round head, round nose, and no particular body, and yet give the thing a personality. I still can't understand that, and see where the little things he says and the funny little illustration seem more real than some of the best-drawn strips, the adventure strips.
SABA: I can't quite figure it out either. Have you ever tried that? Have you ever tried drawing real cartoony-type drawings just to see if you could do it?
FOSTER: Oh, yes, but they finally get too illustrative.