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Bill Griffith
American
Cartoonist
Born:
Jan 20
,
1944
Art
Being
Character
Comics
Me
You
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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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