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

Bill Griffith

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

Drawing Rich Style
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
BILL GRIFFITH

Far Going Half Pleasure
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
BILL GRIFFITH

Life Meat Republican
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH

Army Father Mixture Mother
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
My first character was Mr. Toad.
BILL GRIFFITH

Character Firsts Toads
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
BILL GRIFFITH

Dramatically Opposites Parents
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
BILL GRIFFITH

Acid Bigs Personal Rain
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
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
BILL GRIFFITH

Something Strip Wind
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
BILL GRIFFITH

Always Jokes
Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
BILL GRIFFITH

Comics Language People
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

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