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My first character was Mr. Toad.

Bill Griffith

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

Artist Umpires Years
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
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
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
BILL GRIFFITH

Acid Bigs Personal Rain
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
BILL GRIFFITH

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

Country Jazz Rocks Roll
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
BILL GRIFFITH

Hate Kids Thinking
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
BILL GRIFFITH

Life Meat Republican
I just became one with my browser software.
BILL GRIFFITH

Browsers Computer Software
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
BILL GRIFFITH

Always Jokes
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
Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
BILL GRIFFITH

Comics Language People
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
BILL GRIFFITH

Far Going Half Pleasure
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
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
BILL GRIFFITH

Something Strip Wind
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
BILL GRIFFITH

Dramatically Opposites Parents

My first character was Mr. Toad.

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