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" A full, rich drawing style is a drawback. "
Style
Drawback
Drawing
" Are we having fun yet? "
Fun
Having
Having Fun
" Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively. "
Most
Language
People
" Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. "
Level
Way
Comics
" 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. "
Body
Everyone
Kid
" Frivolity is a stern taskmaster. "
Stern
Frivolity
" I always thought of Levittown as a joke. "
Always
Joke
Thought
" If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip. "
Going
Life
Winds
" I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. "
Had
Mother
Man
" I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents. "
Set
Parents
Had
" I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips. "
Kid
Hate
Formula
" I just became one with my browser software. "
Just
Browser
Computers
" I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy. "
Me
I Think
Part
" I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. "
New York
Brooklyn
Art
" Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America. "
America
Rock And Roll
Rock
" Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character. "
Character
Looking
Looking Back
" Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist. "
Judge
Artist
Seriously
" My first character was Mr. Toad. "
Toad
First
Mr
" 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. "
She
Problems
Out
" The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light. "
Down
Side
Like
" Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. "
Days
Attention
Way
" Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. "
Vision
Romantic
Like
" Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. "
Imitation
Kind
Community
" Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut. "
Done
Here
Me
" Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything. "
Real
Chaos
Everything
" Zippy is living in the moment. "
Living
Moment
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