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

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

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

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

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.

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