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My first character was Mr. Toad.

Bill Griffith

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

Comics Language People
My first character was Mr. Toad.
BILL GRIFFITH

Character Firsts Toads
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
BILL GRIFFITH

Acid Bigs Personal Rain
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH

Army Father Mixture Mother
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
BILL GRIFFITH

Always Jokes
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
BILL GRIFFITH

Life Meat Republican
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

Art Country School Went
Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
BILL GRIFFITH

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

Dramatically Opposites Parents
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there’s nothing real about it; it’s an adult using a kid’s body as a mouthpiece.
BILL GRIFFITH

Adult Everyone Kids Real Say
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
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
BILL GRIFFITH

Far Going Half Pleasure
I just became one with my browser software.
BILL GRIFFITH

Browsers Computer Software
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
BILL GRIFFITH

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

Hate Kids Thinking

My first character was Mr. Toad.

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