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.

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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...

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...

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...

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

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

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

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

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

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...

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought...

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought...

Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me...

Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me...

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

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

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced...

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced...

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being...

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being...

Are we having fun yet?

Are we having fun yet?

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

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

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.

My first character was Mr. Toad.

My first character was Mr. Toad.

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

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