Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
BILL GRIFFITHEverybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
More Bill Griffith Quotes
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I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
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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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All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
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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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If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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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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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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I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
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I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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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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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 had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
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A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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