A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
Bill Griffith

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
Bill Griffith

Are we having fun yet?
Bill Griffith

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.
Bill Griffith

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
Bill Griffith

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
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 body as a mouthpiece.
Bill Griffith

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
Bill Griffith

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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


I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
Bill Griffith

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
Bill Griffith

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
Bill Griffith

I just became one with my browser software.
Bill Griffith

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.
Bill Griffith

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.
Bill Griffith

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

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
Bill Griffith

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

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