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Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing.

Bill Griffith

Drugs

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

Bill Griffith

Being

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

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

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

Bill Griffith

People

Language

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

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

Bill Griffith

Style

My first character was Mr. Toad.

Bill Griffith

Character

First

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

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

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

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.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.