Bill Griffith Quotes
"I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Art, First, School, Years)
"Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Movies, America, Culture, Jazz)
"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
(Related: Time, Thought, Character)
"Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Artist, Friends, Years)
"My first character was Mr. Toad."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Character, First)
"A full, rich drawing style is a drawback."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Style)
"The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Americans, Being, Culture, Light)
"Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: People, Language)
"Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Art, Vision, Being, Romantic)
"Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Community, Conformity, Imitation)
"Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Being)
"When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Drugs)
"Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head."
- Bill Griffith
"Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Chaos, Order)
"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
(Related: Father, Sister, Problems)
"I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Mother, Father, Army, Career, Man, Writer)
"Are we having fun yet?"
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Fun)
"All life is a blur of Republicans and meat."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Life, Republicans)
"I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy."
- Bill Griffith
"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
(Related: Body, Nothing)
"Frivolity is a stern taskmaster."
- Bill Griffith
"If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Life)
"I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Beauty, Artist)
"But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Technology, Life, Character, Computer, Now, Style)
"I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Parents)
"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Formula, Hate)
"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
(Related: Art, Artist, Smoking)
"I just became one with my browser software."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Software)
"Zippy is living in the moment."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Living)
"Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level."
- Bill Griffith
"I always thought of Levittown as a joke."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Thought)
"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
(Related: Work, People, Wrong)