My first character was Mr. Toad.

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.

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

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.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.