Frivolity is a stern taskmaster..

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America..

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr..

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity..

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..

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 a….

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..

Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere..

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip..

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furr….

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer..

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 c….

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….

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days..

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents..

My first character was Mr. Toad..

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..

I just became one with my browser software..

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively..