I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.

But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

I've always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren't moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration. There's great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Calvin: Somewhere in Communist Russia, I'll bet there's a little boy who has never known anything but censorship and oppression. But maybe he's heard of America, and he dreams of living in this land of freedom and opportunity! Someday, I'd like to meet that little boy... and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin's Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.

Tomorrow we'll not only seize the day, we'll throttle it.

CALVIN: Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.