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My first character was Mr. Toad.

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

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

Bill Griffith

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

Bill Griffith

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

Bill Griffith

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

Bill Griffith

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

Bill Griffith

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

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.

Bill Griffith

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

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

Bill Griffith

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

Bill Griffith

Zippy is living in the moment.

Bill Griffith