Facts about Bill Griffith

Occup.Cartoonist
FromUSA
BornJanuary 20, 1944
Age80 years

Summary

Bill Griffith is a famous Cartoonist from USA, he/she is 80 years old and still alive, born January 20, 1944.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous. Our collection contains 31 quotes who is written / told by Bill, under the main topic Computers.

31 Famous quotes by Bill Griffith

Small: Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head
"Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head"
Small: When I was an art student in the early 60s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyo
"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist"
Small: When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on
"When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing"
Small: What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zi
"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"
Small: Well, Ive done a lot of strips since Ive been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut
"Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut"
Small: Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless confor
"Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity"
Small: Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh
"Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr"
Small: Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these d
"Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days"
Small: The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light
"The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light"
Small: She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had.
"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"
Small: My first character was Mr. Toad
"My first character was Mr. Toad"
Small: Mike Judge, who Ive become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist
"Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist"
Small: Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty
"Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character"
Small: Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America
"Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America"
Small: If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip
"If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip"
Small: I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in
"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"
Small: I think Zippy is part of me, but Im not Zippy
"I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy"
Small: I just became one with my browser software
"I just became one with my browser software"
Small: I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips
"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips"
Small: I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents
"I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents"
Small: I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer
"I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer"
Small: I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of do
"I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork"
Small: I always thought of Levittown as a joke
"I always thought of Levittown as a joke"
Small: Frivolity is a stern taskmaster
"Frivolity is a stern taskmaster"
Small: Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me theres nothing real about it its an adul
"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"
Small: Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their m
"Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level"
Small: Comics is a language. Its a language most people understand intuitively
"Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively"
Small: But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a comp
"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"
Small: Are we having fun yet?
"Are we having fun yet?"
Small: All life is a blur of Republicans and meat
"All life is a blur of Republicans and meat"
Small: A full, rich drawing style is a drawback
"A full, rich drawing style is a drawback"