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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.

Bill Griffith

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

Culture Light Sides
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
BILL GRIFFITH

Hate Kids Thinking
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
BILL GRIFFITH

Dramatically Opposites Parents
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
BILL GRIFFITH

Life Meat Republican
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
BILL GRIFFITH

Far Going Half Pleasure
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
BILL GRIFFITH

Country Jazz Rocks Roll
My first character was Mr. Toad.
BILL GRIFFITH

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

Artist Doing Good Problem
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
BILL GRIFFITH

Frivolity Stern Taskmaster
I just became one with my browser software.
BILL GRIFFITH

Browsers Computer Software
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
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH

Army Father Mixture Mother

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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