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Bill Griffith
Bill Griffith
American Cartoonist
Born: Jan 20, 1944
Art Being Character Comics Me You
Related authors: Bil Keane Bill Watterson Caroll Spinney Charles M. Schulz Gary Larson Matt Groening Scott Adams Walt Disney
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
Me Problems Father Discouraged Sister Other Took Out Had She Encouraged Any Artistic Impulse Each
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. Bill Griffith
Art Vision Abandoned Van Van Gogh Fine Fine Art Some Had Like Because Comics Gogh Being Romantic Then
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. Bill Griffith
Community Imitation Mindless Out Kind Also Came Lot Unfortunately Conformity
Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything. Bill Griffith
Chaos Everything Accepts Real Order Which
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. Bill Griffith
Me Reality Our Way Struck Attention Attention Spans Days Metaphor Get Scrambled Doses Spans
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster. Bill Griffith
Stern Frivolity
Are we having fun yet? Bill Griffith
Having Having Fun Fun
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback. Bill Griffith
Style Rich Drawback Drawing Full
I always thought of Levittown as a joke. Bill Griffith
Thought Joke Always
My first character was Mr. Toad. Bill Griffith
Character First Toad
Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut. Bill Griffith
Me Strips About Since Well Been Lot Done Being Connecticut Here
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip. Bill Griffith
Life My Life Strip Winds Something Up Getting Going
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. Bill Griffith
Man Army Mother Father Writer Had Mixture Career
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
Art You School First Other Saw East East Village Brooklyn Fine Fine Art New Until Underground Call Comics Years Art School York New York Eight Painted Village
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips. Bill Griffith
Hate Big Think Kid Strips Hobbes Formula
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist. Bill Griffith
Judge Seriously Become Took Never Over Himself Years Friends Artist Mike Who
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head. Bill Griffith
Big Never Head Yes Acid Personally
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
Work You People Draw Would Would-Be Feature Animated Takes Wrong Over Obviously Make Felt Turning Team Whole

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