The next day my dressing table was full of art supplies Gerry brought for me. I resumed that minute and haven't stopped since. I have him to thank.

What does your artistic process look like these days?

I went digital about three years ago and use an iPad. You can correct mistakes quicker, you can make changes, you can experiment more, and it's easy and quick to just send off your cartoons. I try to tailor-make stuff for a particular audience, but sometimes I just have an idea, and I want to see it through because it's fun.

Sometimes I just submit something somewhere. You've got to get used to rejection. Well, actors are kind of used to it.

You draw cartoons about anything and everything, including many pieces for The Riverdale Press. But in addition to Equity News, you've done many more cartoons about the theatre including illustrating a book by former Equity President Nick Wyman. Do you especially like making cartoons about this industry?

Good Lord, there's always things to laugh about and things to roll your eyes at! Just because theatre is so unique and so different from so many other professions, it's kind of fun to target that.

As opposed to performing, does making cartoons feel different because you're not trying to make your living that way?

Right, it's not my primary profession; I don't have the burden of, "I have to tailor make these for this particular market.”

One of the things I love about theatre is it's a collaboration. It's "one plus one plus one equals five” – you build on each other's ideas, and it's a lot of fun, and you build momentum that way. On the flipside, when I'm drawing a cartoon, I don't have to answer to everybody; it's just how I feel like doing it. It's nice to have both.

I don't think I could be a cartoonist even if I was good enough to be one full time. It suits some people's temperament, but I like the collaborative element of theatre.

Do cartooning and performing ever draw from the same place?

I like something that keeps you creative and has a little silliness and humor in it, and that applies to both cartooning and theatre (sometimes). Humor is a great way just to keep your mind creative and to be looking at things differently. That is very helpful in theatre, I find, so they kind of go hand in hand in that way.

I'm not the only actor who makes cartoons. I love Squigs [Justin Roberston], and political cartoonist Tim Hartman is also an actor. And John Lithgow draws caricatures.

Has your cartooning bled over into your acting in any way?

More as an audience member; I look at things differently. I think I'm a little more visual than I used to be, or I take in the visual a little more. It's true if I go to theatre and look at the design, or I look at a painting or I look at the sky and see how the clouds are as if I were going to draw them.

Thank you for chatting with us – and for the cartoons!

Thank you!