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

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

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

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.

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

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.