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

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

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

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

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

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

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.