You can be lucky enough to be born with the ability to draw, but drawing is also a learnable skill that practice improves and makes perfect-ish. Learning to draw is a very rewarding thing to do in ...

Snails have long appealed to cartoonists (Sam Gross’s “I don’t care if she is a tape dispenser. I love her.” remains an all-time favorite gag). And also to me—as a kid, I had a pet snail named Milo ...