63 Quotes by Bill Griffith

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

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

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

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

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

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

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

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 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.