I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
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.
More Bill Griffith Quotes
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Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
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A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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My first character was Mr. Toad.
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I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
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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 had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
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Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
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Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
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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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The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
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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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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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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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