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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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The author stopped creating comics because he dreamed of becoming a serious artist, inspired by the idea of following in the footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh. This shows he had an idealistic and somewhat unrealistic hope of achieving greatness in fine art.

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