Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. |
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. |
We're going to throw the football, ... We're hoping our team speed helps us get past those 300-pounders. |
We're going to throw the football. We're hoping our team speed helps us get past those 300-pounders. |
Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut. |
What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong. |
What we're seeing out of this area recruiting-wise are Division II kids, ... We don't have the biggest kids here. |
When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing. |
When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist. |
When the Zippy movie first started being talked about very rarely would people actually say animation to me, because I would never consider it. |
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head. |
Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything. |
Zippy has no problem with the irrationality of the universe, whereas most of us are desperately trying to make order out of the universe, and our lives. |
Zippy is living in the moment. |
Zippy is living in the moment. He's at peace with himself because he's out of step with everyone; he doesn't know it, and he doesn't care. |