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 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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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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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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All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
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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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I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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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.
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Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
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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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If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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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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The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
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I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
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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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