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.
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
Zippy is living in the moment.
I just became one with my browser software.
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 hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
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.
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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.
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
Are we having fun yet?
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
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.