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

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

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

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

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

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

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