I don’t see my pen as a gun. It is tempting to draw it as such, a pen or pencil is pointed, and cartoons can be very sharp  and sometimes hurtful. A gun can be a symbol of defiance and power, so can a pen.  But can we think of power another way?  Not as something that hurts or kills or maims, but something that persuades, talks, helps and cares.

A pencil and pen can be just that.