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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

My first character was Mr. Toad.
BILL GRIFFITH

Character Firsts Toads
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
BILL GRIFFITH

Frivolity Stern Taskmaster
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
BILL GRIFFITH

Life Meat Republican
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
BILL GRIFFITH

Country Jazz Rocks Roll
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
BILL GRIFFITH

Culture Light Sides
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH

Army Father Mixture Mother
I just became one with my browser software.
BILL GRIFFITH

Browsers Computer Software
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
BILL GRIFFITH

Always Jokes
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
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.
BILL GRIFFITH

Food Religious Vegetarianism
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
BILL GRIFFITH

Far Going Half Pleasure
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
BILL GRIFFITH

Dramatically Opposites Parents
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
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
BILL GRIFFITH

Condescending Element Everybody Levels Way
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

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