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.

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

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

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

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

I just became one with my browser software.