Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
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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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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I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
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A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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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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I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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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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Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
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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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Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
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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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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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