If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
BILL GRIFFITHMike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
More Bill Griffith Quotes
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I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
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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.
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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
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Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
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I just became one with my browser software.
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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.
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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
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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.
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I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
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