Al Sinclair Quotes

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.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Cartooning has come a long way. It started out as an adult medium, for satirical purposes; then the appeal to children got emphasized.

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

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.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Well, I`ve done a lot of strips since I`ve been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.

When the Zippy movie first started being talked about very rarely would people actually say animation to me, because I would never consider it.

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.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I`m not Zippy.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

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.

My first character was Mr. Toad.

Comics is a language. It`s a language most people understand intuitively.

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

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

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.

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

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.

I just became one with my browser software.

Zippy is living in the moment.

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.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

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.

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

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.

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

Are we having fun yet?