I've been asked this question many times, and I'm always evasive about it, but here, finally, is the answer, told visually:
And here's the resulting cartoon, in which the original real-life conversation is quoted verbatim, and drawn almost photographically from memory, by a trained professional:
Sometimes the cartoonist will throw his realistic rendering skills out the window and draw goofy, primitive characters to speak the lines, getting both a cartoon and a comic strip out of the original stolen moment:
This is known as "double-dipping," and cartoonists do it when they think no one is paying attention.
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