A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

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

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 comics in the East Village Other.

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

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

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