Bill Griffith Professions : Cartoonist Born : January 20, 1944 Browse All Authors Top 33 quotes by Bill Griffith I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents. Bill Griffith parent opposites I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. Bill Griffith army mother father 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 marijuana smoking art Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. Bill Griffith attention reality way Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. Bill Griffith vision romantic art 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 sister father Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness. Bill Griffith vegetarianism religious food I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips. Bill Griffith hate kids thinking Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything. Bill Griffith everything chaos real order I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy. Bill Griffith i-think part think me Are we having fun yet? Bill Griffith having having-fun fun Zippy is living in the moment. Bill Griffith moment living Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut. Bill Griffith here being me done Similar Authors Al Capp cartoonist Bill Amend cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley cartoonist Art Spiegelman cartoonist Alison Bechdel cartoonist Alex Toth cartoonist All Authors