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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

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

Comics Language People
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
Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
BILL GRIFFITH

Artist Umpires Years
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
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 had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
BILL GRIFFITH

Dramatically Opposites Parents
I just became one with my browser software.
BILL GRIFFITH

Browsers Computer Software
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
BILL GRIFFITH

Something Strip Wind
My first character was Mr. Toad.
BILL GRIFFITH

Character Firsts Toads
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
BILL GRIFFITH

Hate Kids Thinking
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
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
BILL GRIFFITH

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

Culture Light Sides
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
BILL GRIFFITH

Always Jokes

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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