A full, rich drawing style is a drawback. |
A lot of people write angry letters saying Zippy is stupid and that's why they don't get it: because it is stupid. |
Adele is one of the most, to coin a cliche, life-affirming people I've ever met, especially because of her bleak outlook, |
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat. |
Are we having fun yet? |
At this point it's kind of a faded, tattered dream, but over the years there was some serious effort and a lot of serious money spent to make a movie. |
At this point, it's just kind of a long tradition to help with this auction and help Adele out. I've been there as long as its been going. It was a fast 20 years. I would do anything she asked me to do. |
Before I started doing Zippy I had an early encounter with a Pinhead in 1969. |
But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before. |
Cartooning has come a long way. It started out as an adult medium, for satirical purposes; then the appeal to children got emphasized. |
Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively. |
Every coach here expects to win. We're trying to instill that in these kids. |
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. |
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece. |
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster. |