If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don’t get asked to do it again.
I’m pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I’m doing my job well, I’m being true to the situation and true to the character.
Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
Scientific Progress goes boink?
What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.
I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient’s friends.
So long, Pop! I’m off to check my tiger trap!
I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification. -Calvin.
I enjoy the drawing more than the writing, so I try to think of ideas that will allow me to develop the visual side of the strip as fully as possible.
The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an “elite” class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.
I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.
Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower? Of course not. Don’t be silly. Even if I didn’t use it in the house?