I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.