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 GRIFFITHI 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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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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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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Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
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A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
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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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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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I just became one with my browser software.
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I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
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All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
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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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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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Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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