Quotes from Bill Griffith

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

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

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

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

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

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

Are we having fun yet?

My first character was Mr. Toad.

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

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

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

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.

I just became one with my browser software.

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

My life is a patio of fun.

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.

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

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

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

I just became one with my browser software.

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

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

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.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.