Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
BILL GRIFFITHJazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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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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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 GRIFFITHI 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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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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I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
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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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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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The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
BILL GRIFFITHThe down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
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Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
BILL GRIFFITHGoing too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
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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.
BILL GRIFFITHVegetarianism 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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All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
BILL GRIFFITHAll life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
BILL GRIFFITHFrivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITHI had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
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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.
BILL GRIFFITHI 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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I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
BILL GRIFFITHI always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
BILL GRIFFITHA full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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