Bill Griffith's Quotes

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

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

Zippy is living in the moment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

Are we having fun yet?

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

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

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.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

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

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

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

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

I just became one with my browser software.

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.

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