Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

Are we having fun yet?

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

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.

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.

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

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.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

Zippy is living in the moment.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

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.

My first character was Mr. Toad.

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

I just became one with my browser software.

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

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.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

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.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

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.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.

I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.