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.
BILL GRIFFITHI hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
BILL GRIFFITHIf something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
BILL GRIFFITHI just became one with my browser software.
BILL GRIFFITHI had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
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 GRIFFITHI always thought of Levittown as a joke.
BILL GRIFFITHA full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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 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 GRIFFITHI had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
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 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 GRIFFITHThen I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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 GRIFFITH