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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

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.
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Army Father Mixture Mother
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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Something Strip Wind
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
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Acid Bigs Personal Rain
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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Country Jazz Rocks Roll
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 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
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
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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Food Religious Vegetarianism
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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Hate Kids Thinking
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
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Far Going Half Pleasure
My first character was Mr. Toad.
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Character Firsts Toads
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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Adult Everyone Kids Real Say
I just became one with my browser software.
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Browsers Computer Software
Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
BILL GRIFFITH

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

Culture Light Sides

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