Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
BILL GRIFFITHThe down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
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Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
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I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
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I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
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Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
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The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
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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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A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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My first character was Mr. Toad.
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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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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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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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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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If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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I just became one with my browser software.
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