Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
BILL GRIFFITHMike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
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If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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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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I just became one with my browser software.
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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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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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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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All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
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I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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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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Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
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Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
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