Bill GriffithI always thought of Levittown as a joke.372HumorThought
Bill GriffithThen I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.375Life
Bill GriffithAll life is a blur of Republicans and meat.344Life
Bill GriffithI hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.377Thought
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 wro… ▶368Humanity
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.337Life
Bill GriffithThe down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.283Truth
Bill GriffithEveryone 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.3410Reflection
Bill GriffithComics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.263Humanity
Bill GriffithJazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.253Philosophy
Bill GriffithEverybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.258Love
Bill GriffithFrivolity is a stern taskmaster. ✨ Bill Griffith (2012). Lost and Found: Comics 1969-2003, p.365, Fantagraphics Books182Reading
Bill GriffithA full, rich drawing style is a drawback.248Time
Bill GriffithI had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.249Life
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.229ThoughtTime
Bill GriffithI just became one with my browser software.153Time
Bill GriffithTheir scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.188Truth
Bill GriffithUnfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.188Thought
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.168Time
Bill GriffithI had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.136Humor
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 ri… ▶1310Sadness
