 Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. |
| 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. |
| Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. |
| Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. |
| Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. |
| Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents. |
| I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy. |
| Frivolity is a stern taskmaster. |
| I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork. |
| Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively. |
