Jeff MacNelly (1947–2000) American cartoonist
Prof. Cosmo Fishhawk, in Shoe
“I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.”
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