The phrase is supposed to be satirical, but lots of people don't see the subtext.

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

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

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 had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.