I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
BILL GRIFFITHI 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.
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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.
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Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
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Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
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My first character was Mr. Toad.
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I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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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.
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A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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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.
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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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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.
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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.
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I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
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