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.

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

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

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

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

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

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