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 GRIFFITHGoing too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
More Bill Griffith Quotes
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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.
BILL GRIFFITHVegetarianism 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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Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
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I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
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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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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.
BILL GRIFFITHIf something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
BILL GRIFFITHA full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
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All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
BILL GRIFFITHAll life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
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My first character was Mr. Toad.
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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 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.
BILL GRIFFITHI 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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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
BILL GRIFFITHThen I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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