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

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

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

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.

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.

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