Bill Griffith

“My life is a patio of fun.”

— Bill Griffith

Zippy is living in the moment.

— Bill Griffith

I just became one with my browser software.

— Bill Griffith

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

— Bill Griffith

My first character was Mr. Toad.

— Bill Griffith

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

— Bill Griffith

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

— Bill Griffith

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with…

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

— Bill Griffith

When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone…

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and…

— Bill Griffith

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy…

— Bill Griffith

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in…

— Bill Griffith

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in…

— Bill Griffith

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures…

— Bill Griffith

When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists…

— Bill Griffith

Are we having fun yet?

— Bill Griffith

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using…

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith