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

The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

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

United Features had given me a development contract, which meant I was to work exclusively with them and rather than completing everything on my own and turning it in to them and having it rejected or accepted, I was working much more directly with the syndicate, turning in smaller batches much more frequently, and getting comments on them. The idea was that they would help me develop the strip and then, assuming that they liked it, it would flow into a normal contract for syndication.