For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States.
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can.
You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.
I guess that compared to other comic strips, I'm edgy. But put me along something like 'South Park,' and I'm 'Captain Kangaroo.'
I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.
I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.
Mark Van Doren: Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.
Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.
I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera, you know, you name it.
A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done.
I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium.
I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.
I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married in real life. So both are shocks to me.
We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.
Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.
For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.
