Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
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.
More Bill Griffith Quotes
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I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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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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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 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 had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
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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.
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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.
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Going 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.
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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
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Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
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I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
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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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My first character was Mr. Toad.
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