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.

Zippy is living in the moment.

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