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

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.

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

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

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

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.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.