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Vote:   | A full, rich drawing style is a drawback. |
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Vote: | A lot of people write angry letters saying Zippy is stupid and that's why they don't get it: because it is stupid. |
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Vote: | All life is a blur of Republicans and meat. |
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Vote: | Are we having fun yet? |
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Vote: | At this point it's kind of a faded, tattered dream, but over the years there was some serious effort and a lot of serious money spent to make a movie. |
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Vote: | Before I started doing Zippy I had an early encounter with a Pinhead in 1969. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Cartooning has come a long way. It started out as an adult medium, for satirical purposes; then the appeal to children got emphasized. |
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Vote: | Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively. |
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Vote: | Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Frivolity is a stern taskmaster. |
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Vote: | His observations are almost an obsession. He's very neurotic, full of self-doubt, which he masquerades as being critical of everything. |
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Vote: | I always thought of Levittown as a joke. |
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Vote: | I grew up on Long Island, and my wife and I had always talked about coming back East some day and living in the country. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. |
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Vote: | I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents. |
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Vote: | I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips. |
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Vote: | I just accepted provolone into my life. |
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Vote: | I just became one with my browser software. |
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Vote: | I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy. |
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Vote: | I went through nine drafts of a screenplay; it had a whole plot, not just vignettes. Right now I'm getting a lot of feelers from animation companies. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I'm trying to shine a light on things that are recognizable in all of us, that Zippy embodies, that once we admit to, maybe we can laugh at. |
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Vote: | I've known Crumb for twenty-five years and no movie could affect my opinion of him. |
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Vote: | If someone asks me, am I Zippy or am I Griffy, I just say, basically, they're both me. |
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Vote: | If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip. |
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Vote: | In any comics, any animation, the artwork should be as important as anything else. |
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Vote: | In making my strips the inspiration is really only the germ of something, they say it's 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration. |
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Vote: | Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist. |
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Vote: | MTV won't do anything unless they own it 100% so that didn't tempt me at all because I would never give away the character. |
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Vote: | My first character was Mr. Toad. |
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Vote: | No, I like The Simpsons, although when I first saw it I was repulsed by the artwork. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Sometimes when people read Zippy they're expecting it to fall into the same formula as some other comics. That's not what I do. |
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Vote: | The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light. |
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Vote: | The phrase is supposed to be satirical, but lots of people don't see the subtext. |
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Vote: | The wise guy inside me trimphed over the artiste. |
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Vote: | Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. |
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Vote: | Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. |
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Vote: | Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. |
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Vote: | Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | When the Zippy movie first started being talked about very rarely would people actually say animation to me, because I would never consider it. |
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Vote: | Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head. |
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Vote: | Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything. |
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Vote: | Zippy has no problem with the irrationality of the universe, whereas most of us are desperately trying to make order out of the universe, and our lives. |
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Vote: | Zippy is living in the moment. |
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Vote: | Zippy is living in the moment. He's at peace with himself because he's out of step with everyone; he doesn't know it, and he doesn't care. |
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Vote: | Zippy's non-sequiturs aren't really non-sequiturs. It seems like he's stringing together non-related thoughts but that's not really what's happening. You can decode almost all of it if you give it a little effort. |