Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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.
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
Are we having fun yet?
I just became one with my browser software.
Zippy is living in the moment.
Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.
I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
My first character was Mr. Toad.
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.
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.
