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.

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.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.