Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist..

I always thought of Levittown as a joke..

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

My first character was Mr. Toad..

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips..

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

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character..

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 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….

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

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

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

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork..

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster..

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat..

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback..

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

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents..

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….

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light..

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