I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
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. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
