Bill Griffith

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

#artistic #discouraged #each #encouraged #father

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

— Bill Griffith

#culture #down #kind #light #like

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#attention spans #days #doses #get #me

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

— Bill Griffith

#art #because #being #comics #fine

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

— Bill Griffith

#came #community #conformity #imitation #kind

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

— Bill Griffith

#been #being #connecticut #done #here

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. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#draw #feature #felt #i #i do

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. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#anyone #art #art student #artist #before

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

— Bill Griffith

#big #head #i #never #personally

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

— Bill Griffith

#chaos #everything #order #real #which