Bigs Quote by Bill Griffith Download Open image “I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.” — Bill Griffith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bigs Calvin And Hobbes Formulas Hash Hate Hobbes I hate Kids Think big Thinking
As a kid, I was obsessed with 'Calvin and Hobbes' and 'Bone,' and I'm certain that I've unconsciously ripped off ideas from both, wholesale. — Alex Hirsch 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
It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
For me, the very last great strip is 'Peanuts.' After 'Peanuts,' there are a very few strips that I enjoyed for different reasons, but… — Seth Copy Share Image
I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
“Having a syndicated comic strip is a great platform for ripping on expressions you hate.” — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product. — Calvin Klein 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
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first. I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let… — Kim Alexis Copy Share
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be. — Kenny Wormald Copy Share
The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before… — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I don't want this to be a distraction. This has been distracting enough. I'm not going to rehash this going forward. I'm sure other… — Jayson Werth Copy Share Image
I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
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