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.
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I'm trying to shine a light on things that are recognizable in all of us, that Zippy embodies, that once we admit to, maybe we can laugh at.Bill Griffith
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
Bill Griffith
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.
Bill Griffith
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
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Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
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