I've known Crumb for twenty-five years and no movie could affect my opinion of him. |
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip. |
In any comics, any animation, the artwork should be as important as anything else. |
In making my strips the inspiration is really only the germ of something, they say it's 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration. |
It's time to get serious. |
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America. |
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character. |
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist. |
MTV won't do anything unless they own it 100% so that didn't tempt me at all because I would never give away the character. |
My first character was Mr. Toad. |
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. |
Sometimes when people read Zippy they're expecting it to fall into the same formula as some other comics. That's not what I do. |
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light. |
The phrase is supposed to be satirical, but lots of people don't see the subtext. |
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. |