black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

Bill Griffith

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
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
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
BILL GRIFFITH

Frivolity Stern Taskmaster
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.
BILL GRIFFITH

Art Marijuana Smoking
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
BILL GRIFFITH

Something Strip Wind
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
BILL GRIFFITH

Far Going Half Pleasure
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
My first character was Mr. Toad.
BILL GRIFFITH

Character Firsts Toads
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
BILL GRIFFITH

Always Jokes
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
BILL GRIFFITH

Culture Light Sides
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
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
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
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
BILL GRIFFITH

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

Artist Umpires Years

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Griffith Quotes