The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
BILL GRIFFITHGoing too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
More Bill Griffith Quotes
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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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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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If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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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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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
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Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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I just became one with my browser software.
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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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Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
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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.
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I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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