Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
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Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
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I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
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Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
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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.
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Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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