Bill Griffith

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

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. ”

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

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback. ”

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

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents. ”

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy. ”

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. ”

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip. ”

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before. ”