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

Bill Griffith

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

Country Jazz Rocks Roll
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.
BILL GRIFFITH

Over People Team You
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
BILL GRIFFITH

Artist Doing Good Problem
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.
BILL GRIFFITH

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

Art Romantic Vision
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
BILL GRIFFITH

Life Meat Republican
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.
BILL GRIFFITH

Adult Everyone Kids Real Say
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
BILL GRIFFITH

Far Going Half Pleasure
Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
BILL GRIFFITH

Comics Language People
My first character was Mr. Toad.
BILL GRIFFITH

Character Firsts Toads
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
BILL GRIFFITH

Something Strip Wind
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.
BILL GRIFFITH

Food Religious Vegetarianism
Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
BILL GRIFFITH

Artist Umpires Years
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH

Army Father Mixture Mother
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
BILL GRIFFITH

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

Alaska Character Feminist

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