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 GriffithLooking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
Bill GriffithWhen 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 GriffithUnfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
Bill GriffithShe 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 GriffithWhat 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 GriffithI went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.
Bill GriffithThe down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
Bill GriffithVegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
Bill GriffithThen I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
Bill GriffithMike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
Bill GriffithEverybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
Bill Griffith