My first character was Mr. Toad.
BILL GRIFFITHWhen 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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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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I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
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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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Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
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I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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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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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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I just became one with my browser software.
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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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Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
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Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
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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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If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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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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