People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.
My wife has joked that if anything ever happened to me, she'd gladly live out her life without anyone else around. I think it bugs her I'm home all the time; such is the life cycle of the cartoonist, however.
The thing I loved about the cartoons I grew up with is, to this day, I'm still just starting to get certain references from Bugs Bunny cartoons. I'll see some film noir movie and go, 'Wait, that's what Bugs Bunny was quoting!' I like the idea we made the unfolding fortune cookie for ten years from now.
I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.
I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.
Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it.
It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.
The main thing is to think strategically about what will engage your readers. Trust me when I tell you that few people are eager to read a story whose opening lines sound like a dissertation on giant bugs.
The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.
