Growing up as a kid, Johnny Hart was my idol. Ah, who am I kidding? He still is! And I never finished growing up.
The late cartoonist of "B.C." was from my hometown (what we called then "The Triple Cities"... but the Chamber of Commerce is now referring to as "Greater Binghamton") in Upstate New York. When I was fourteen, I wrote him a fan letter. I forget what I wrote exactly, but I did tell him that I wanted to become the "world's greatest cartoonist".
He wrote back, "Send me a quarter and I'll commit suicide".
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