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The creator of the Marmaduke comic panel reflects on thirty years of syndicated success, from selling aviation gag cartoons at age fifteen to building Marmaduke into a strip running in 524 newspapers through United Feature Syndicate. Anderson discusses his technique (brush on Strathmore), the strip's origins in a gag-writer collaboration and his mother's boxer dog, the difficult early years owing money to the syndicate, and the 1971 launch of the Sunday page. He also touches on Marmaduke's ABC animated television appearance with Heathcliff, Scholastic's four-million-copy book sales to schools, and his son Craig Anderson's career at Marvel Comics.