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.

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Are we having fun yet?

Are we having fun yet?

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...

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...

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...

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...

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing...

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing...

My first character was Mr. Toad.

My first character was Mr. Toad.

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

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

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...

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...

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

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.

I just became one with my browser software.

I just became one with my browser software.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

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 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...

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...

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...

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.