Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

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I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what...

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what...

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

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

Zippy is living in the moment.

Zippy is living in the moment.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes...

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes...

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

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

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings...

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings...

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began...

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began...

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem...

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem...

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our...

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our...

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I...

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I...

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

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

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

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

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

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became...

When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became...