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

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

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.

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.

My first character was Mr. Toad.

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

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