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

My first character was Mr. Toad.

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.

Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.

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

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.

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