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

Bill Griffith

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

Comics Language People
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
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
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Dramatically Opposites Parents
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.
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Artist Umpires Years
My first character was Mr. Toad.
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Character Firsts Toads
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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Artistic Father Sister
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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Hate Kids Thinking
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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Frivolity Stern Taskmaster
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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Something Strip Wind
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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Art Country School Went
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
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Army Father Mixture Mother
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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Always Jokes
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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Drawing Rich Style
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
BILL GRIFFITH

Far Going Half Pleasure
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

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