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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

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
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
BILL GRIFFITH

Frivolity Stern Taskmaster
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
BILL GRIFFITH

Dramatically Opposites Parents
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
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
BILL GRIFFITH

Culture Light Sides
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
BILL GRIFFITH

Country Jazz Rocks Roll
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
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
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
BILL GRIFFITH

Acid Bigs Personal Rain
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
BILL GRIFFITH

Something Strip Wind
My first character was Mr. Toad.
BILL GRIFFITH

Character Firsts Toads
Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
BILL GRIFFITH

Artist Umpires Years
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
BILL GRIFFITH

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

Army Father Mixture Mother
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
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
BILL GRIFFITH

Life Meat Republican

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