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

  • Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.

    "Questions for Griffy". Interview with Gary Panter, www.tcj.com. March 21, 2012.
  • Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

  • Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

  • Vegetarianism 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.

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

  • 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.

  • My first character was Mr. Toad.

  • I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

  • The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

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

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  • I 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.

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

  • I just became one with my browser software.

  • Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

  • A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

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

  • All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

  • Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

    Bill Griffith (2012). “Lost and Found: Comics 1969-2003”, p.365, Fantagraphics Books
  • Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

  • I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Kids  
  • I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

  • Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

  • I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

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