Roz Chast, for The New Yorker::
The week after September 11, 2001, the magazine published, for the second time in its history, an issue containing no cartoons. (The first was the issue that John Hersey’s ‘Hiroshima’ appeared in.) The following week, the cartoons returned, among them Leo’s leadoff: a woman sits at a bar with a man in a checked sports coat... It was as if a door that had been slammed shut had been opened, just a little bit.
From a December 2009 interview with Cullum:
The Cartoon Bank: You’ve lived in Malibu since the 1970s. How has the area changed over time? Has living in that famously wealthy, celebrity-filled environment supplied you with good ideas for cartoons?
LC: I have not gotten one cartoon idea from living in Malibu…seriously. It’s not a funny place. Pretty, but not funny. Maybe that’s the problem. Too much sun and blue water. It used to be a quiet and peaceful small town, but these days, the paparazzi have taken over. I make a point of never looking at celebrities. That seems to work for all of us.
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