Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
BILL GRIFFITHMy first character was Mr. Toad.
More Bill Griffith Quotes
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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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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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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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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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I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
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I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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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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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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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.
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I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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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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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.
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If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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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.
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