Milt Caniff on working as a cartoonist

CANIFF: ...I've heard a cartoonist say this, and it always saddens me when I hear it--"Oh, good God, I hate to think of sitting at that drawing board today." Well, they ought to get into some other trade if that's the way they feel about it. To just go there under compulsion, as if you've been put in the trireme to pull an oar every day. Of course, it's hard work, but I used to have a managing editor who said to me, "Son, you asked for work when you came here." He's the same editor who said, "Draw this for the old man who buys the paper. Don't worry about the kids." Kids don't read newspaper comics. Everyone thinks they do, but they don't.