The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
BILL GRIFFITHLooking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
More Bill Griffith Quotes
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All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
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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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I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
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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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I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
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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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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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Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
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