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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Bill Griffith

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
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
She 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 GRIFFITH

Artistic Father Sister
Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
BILL GRIFFITH

Comics Language People
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH

Army Father Mixture Mother
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
BILL GRIFFITH

Hate Kids Thinking
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
BILL GRIFFITH

Frivolity Stern Taskmaster
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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Drawing Rich Style
My first character was Mr. Toad.
BILL GRIFFITH

Character Firsts Toads
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
I just became one with my browser software.
BILL GRIFFITH

Browsers Computer Software
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
BILL GRIFFITH

Country Jazz Rocks Roll
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
BILL GRIFFITH

Condescending Element Everybody Levels Way
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
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
BILL GRIFFITH

Something Strip Wind

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

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