In any comics, any animation, the artwork should be as important as anything else.
Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.
Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.
I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.
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.
He's starting to learn defenses and starting to learn how to read defenses. He's more confident standing in the pocket and taking his time making a decision.
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.
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.
Cartooning has come a long way. It started out as an adult medium, for satirical purposes; then the appeal to children got emphasized.
When the Zippy movie first started being talked about very rarely would people actually say animation to me, because I would never consider it.
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.
I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.
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.
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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.
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.