Quotes By Bill Griffith

Zippy is living in the moment.

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

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

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

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.

Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.

When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

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

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

Are we having fun yet?

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

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

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

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

My first character was Mr. Toad.

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

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

I just became one with my browser software.

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.

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.

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

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

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

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.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

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

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.