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.”

“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.”

“A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.”

“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.”

“Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.”

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

“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.”

“My first character was Mr. Toad.”