Neal Adams interviewed by Gary Groth

ADAMS: Remember that when Herriman did Krazy Kat, the complexion of the world was very different. There wasn't that much entertainment, so when you were doing a syndicated strip, the newspaper asked you to be entertaining. In other words, that's how you could sell newspapers: by being entertaining. If it were true now- if all the televisions, radios, and movies were destroyed, or our economy got in such a slump that all we could do was buy the newspaper-then it would be the job of the newspaper to be entertaining. Since we have all those other things, it's ridiculous for the syndicated strip to be entertaining because it's outclassed everywhere it turns. There's no way to be entertaining except to make a laugh. You can make a laugh, but even then there are comedians on television every night telling jokes. It's just all over the place. So, if that is taken away -- and it is taken away -- if the ability to entertain is taken away by other media competing, then what is there left to do? Krazy Kat would never be done now. It's just not as entertaining as Saturday morning television for kids or the television shows or movies are for adults. That's why it would never be done. We're in a different time.