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

Bill Griffith

My first character was Mr. Toad.
BILL GRIFFITH

Character Firsts Toads
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
BILL GRIFFITH

Far Going Half Pleasure
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
BILL GRIFFITH

Always Jokes
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
BILL GRIFFITH

Acid Bigs Personal Rain
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
BILL GRIFFITH

Condescending Element Everybody Levels Way
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
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
BILL GRIFFITH

Hate Kids Thinking
Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
BILL GRIFFITH

Artist Umpires Years
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
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
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
BILL GRIFFITH

Culture Light Sides
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
BILL GRIFFITH

Life Meat Republican
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
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
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
BILL GRIFFITH

Drawing Rich Style

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

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