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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

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
BILL GRIFFITH

Always Jokes
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
BILL GRIFFITH

Country Jazz Rocks Roll
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
BILL GRIFFITH

Drawing Rich Style
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 had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
BILL GRIFFITH

Dramatically Opposites Parents
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
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
I just became one with my browser software.
BILL GRIFFITH

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

Art Romantic Vision
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
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 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
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
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
BILL GRIFFITH

Frivolity Stern Taskmaster
Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
BILL GRIFFITH

Artist Umpires Years
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
BILL GRIFFITH

Acid Bigs Personal Rain
Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
BILL GRIFFITH

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

Culture Light Sides
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
BILL GRIFFITH

Far Going Half Pleasure
My first character was Mr. Toad.
BILL GRIFFITH

Character Firsts Toads
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH

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

Hate Kids Thinking
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
BILL GRIFFITH

Something Strip Wind
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
BILL GRIFFITH

Life Meat Republican

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