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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.
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Art Country School Went
My first character was Mr. Toad.
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Character Firsts Toads
Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
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Comics Language People
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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Artistic Father Sister
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
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Acid Bigs Personal Rain
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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Country Jazz Rocks Roll
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
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Artist Doing Good Problem
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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Drawing Rich Style
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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Frivolity Stern Taskmaster
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
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Culture Light Sides
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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Alaska Character Feminist
I just became one with my browser software.
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Browsers Computer Software
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
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Condescending Element Everybody Levels Way
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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Art Marijuana Smoking
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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Always Jokes
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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Adult Everyone Kids Real Say

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