I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN

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

Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you're done before you know it.