Bill Griffith 19 Lovely Quotes

Bill Griffith 19 Lovely Quotese

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

— Bill Griffith

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

— 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

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

— Bill Griffith

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

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

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

— Bill Griffith

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

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

— Bill Griffith

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

— Bill Griffith

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

— Bill Griffith

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

— Bill Griffith

Are we having fun yet?

— Bill Griffith

Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.

— Bill Griffith

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

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

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

— Bill Griffith

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

— Bill Griffith

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