School Quotes by 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

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

— Bill Griffith

“My life is a patio of fun.”

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

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

— 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 a kid's…

— Bill Griffith

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

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

— Bill Griffith

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

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

— Bill Griffith

My first character was Mr. Toad.

— Bill Griffith