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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

Bill Griffith

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
BILL GRIFFITH

Frivolity Stern Taskmaster
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
BILL GRIFFITH

Alaska Character Feminist
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
Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
BILL GRIFFITH

Comics Language People
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
BILL GRIFFITH

Drawing Rich Style
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.
BILL GRIFFITH

Over People Team You
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
BILL GRIFFITH

Acid Bigs Personal Rain
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
BILL GRIFFITH

Hate Kids Thinking
Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
BILL GRIFFITH

Artist Umpires Years
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.
BILL GRIFFITH

Art Marijuana Smoking
My first character was Mr. Toad.
BILL GRIFFITH

Character Firsts Toads
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
BILL GRIFFITH

Life Meat Republican
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
BILL GRIFFITH

Dramatically Opposites Parents
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
BILL GRIFFITH

Always Jokes
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
BILL GRIFFITH

Culture Light Sides
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
BILL GRIFFITH

Something Strip Wind

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