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My first character was Mr. Toad.
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.
She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
Are we having fun yet?
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
Zippy is living in the moment.
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.
My life is a patio of fun.
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
I just became one with my browser software.
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.
