I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

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

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

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

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

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

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