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My first character was Mr. Toad.

Bill Griffith

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

Army Father Mixture Mother
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
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
Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
BILL GRIFFITH

Artist Umpires Years
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
I just became one with my browser software.
BILL GRIFFITH

Browsers Computer Software
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
BILL GRIFFITH

Dramatically Opposites Parents
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
BILL GRIFFITH

Always Jokes
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
BILL GRIFFITH

Acid Bigs Personal Rain
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
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
BILL GRIFFITH

Drawing Rich Style
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
BILL GRIFFITH

Country Jazz Rocks Roll

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