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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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Bill Griffith
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 20
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Brooklyn
New York
Art Spiegelman
William Henry Jackson Griffith
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