to push through them and create your success. what are those tools? you want to pick things that even if it doesn t work you re going to come out ahead. so, for example, i did some entrepreneurial things but they didn t work, and they gave me new tools that allowed me to be more effective in cartooning. my experience with technology, for example, which was a couple of failed careers, allowed me to do my production of the strip in probably half the time. you even broke it down for us. tell me about this. goals are for losers? the trouble with goals is let s say you want to be the best javelin thrower in the world and win the gold medal, if you miss that you haven t really prepared for anything else. so goals can be kind of limiting. it makes more sense to have a system in which you re always moving from a place of low odds to a place of better odds. for example, going to college would be a system. you don t know exactly
employees don t agree with them about what is the most moral spiritual thing to do in these situations. their own conscience dictates something else. that is the battle people have good will and good faith beliefs in religion. the question is whether the courts will rule in a way that say a business s religious freedom can trump that of its employees. thanks for spending time with us today. we re going to turn next to calvin and hobbs, the fascinating story behind one of the most beloved comic strips of all time and the elusive creator. three people on the planet have seen him. he s the sasquatch of cartoonists. cartooning attracts solitary people, ins lar people, because if you were going to spend time at your drawing desk, you weren t the kind of guy that dated well in high school.
it s time for the pop culture lead. the slowdown of the newspaper industry also means the slowdown of political cartoons the washington post s herb locke made nixon s enemies list. and most recently, matt boris to score political points on the house floor, but even with that plug, there s no denies the field of political cartooning is regrettably fading away. i recently spoke to matt forbes, considered one of the best in the business, about how he s managed to evolve as the member of an endangered species. armed with a ruler, an ink bottle, a coffee-stained sketchbook and sharp political mind, 29-year-old matt boris has mastered a dies craft. i sat down with him. creatively it s flourishing
and doing amazing. i think it will be permanently diminished. reporter: according to the association of american editorial cartoonists there are fewer than 100, compared to 280 a few years ago. the heyday of newspapers is never coming back, so it s more of a freelance position, but there are still people out there willing to do it. he s more that willing to do it, and certainly able. his liberal commentary has gained him national syndication and a spot on the short list for a pulitzer prize last year. who were your i always wanted to draw x-men. i didn t get into political cartooning under the run up to the war. war is boring that s the title of his first cartoon novel. that same year bors took hess sketch pad to afghanistan to draw attention to the scenes there. now he s inkoppetted those into
honestly. i wanted to be a cartoonist. i wanted to be the next garry trudeau. 43 years after its creation, the pulitzer prize winning comic strip is still going strong. why are you also doing this other project? isn t juggling 6,000 characters in doonesbury and doing this incredibly popular comic strip enough? this cartooning thing just kind of found me. it wasn t something i s.a.l.t. i was recruited out of college my junior year. so like whereas i m a failed cartoonist who stumbled into journali journalism, you re a failed writer/director/author who stumbled into cartooning. right. i guess sometime everyone will find where they re actually supposed to be. supposed to be, yeah. for now, trudeau is hoping amazon is where alpha house is supposed to be. swruers and reviewers will soon decide. and if you want to see more of the art oist at work, watch exclusive footage of garry trudeau at cnn.com/thelead.