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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

My first character was Mr. Toad.
BILL GRIFFITH

Character Firsts Toads
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
BILL GRIFFITH

Hate Kids Thinking
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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Art Romantic Vision
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
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Dramatically Opposites Parents
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
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Life Meat Republican
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
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
I just became one with my browser software.
BILL GRIFFITH

Browsers Computer Software
Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
BILL GRIFFITH

Comics Language People
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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Art Country School Went
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
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
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Condescending Element Everybody Levels Way
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
BILL GRIFFITH

Frivolity Stern Taskmaster
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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Always Jokes
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
BILL GRIFFITH

Country Jazz Rocks Roll
Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
BILL GRIFFITH

Artist Umpires Years

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

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