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.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

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

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.

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

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

My first character was Mr. Toad.