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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 Griffith

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
BILL GRIFFITH

Artist Doing Good Problem
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.
BILL GRIFFITH

Artistic Father Sister
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
BILL GRIFFITH

Condescending Element Everybody Levels Way
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 GRIFFITH

Over People Team You
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 GRIFFITH

Art Country School Went
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 GRIFFITH

Food Religious Vegetarianism
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
BILL GRIFFITH

Hate Kids Thinking
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
BILL GRIFFITH

Life Meat Republican
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
BILL GRIFFITH

Frivolity Stern Taskmaster
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
BILL GRIFFITH

Always Jokes
Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
BILL GRIFFITH

Artist Umpires Years
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH

Army Father Mixture Mother
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
BILL GRIFFITH

Art Romantic Vision
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
BILL GRIFFITH

Drawing Rich Style
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.
BILL GRIFFITH

Adult Everyone Kids Real Say
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
BILL GRIFFITH

Far Going Half Pleasure

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