A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
BILL GRIFFITHA full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
BILL GRIFFITHI always thought of Levittown as a joke.
BILL GRIFFITHThen I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
BILL GRIFFITHShe 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.
BILL GRIFFITHComics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
BILL GRIFFITHI just became one with my browser software.
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.
BILL GRIFFITHWhat 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 GRIFFITHEveryone 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 GRIFFITHI had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITHWhen 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.
BILL GRIFFITHYes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
BILL GRIFFITHThe down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
BILL GRIFFITHJazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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.
BILL GRIFFITHEverybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
BILL GRIFFITH