I just became one with my browser software.
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
My first character was Mr. Toad.
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
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.
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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.
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
