Bill Griffith America Quotations

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

Cartooning has come a long way. It started out as an adult medium, for satirical purposes; then the appeal to children got emphasized.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Zippy is living in the moment. He's at peace with himself because he's out of step with everyone; he doesn't know it, and he doesn't care.

At this point it's kind of a faded, tattered dream, but over the years there was some serious effort and a lot of serious money spent to make a movie.

When the Zippy movie first started being talked about very rarely would people actually say animation to me, because I would never consider it.