Bill Griffith

Zippy is living in the moment. ”

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

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

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

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

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”