American - Cartoonist | January 20, 1944 -
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
Bill Griffith
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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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My first character was Mr. Toad.
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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
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Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.
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I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
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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.
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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
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Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
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I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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