Bill Griffith
Bill Griffith
William Henry Jackson Griffithis a prolific American cartoonist who signs his work Bill Griffith and Griffy. He is best known for his daily comic strip Zippy. The popular catchphrase "Are we having fun yet?" is credited to Griffith in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth20 January 1944
CountryUnited States of America
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Before I started doing Zippy I had an early encounter with a Pinhead in 1969.
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Cartooning has come a long way. It started out as an adult medium, for satirical purposes; then the appeal to children got emphasized.
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At this point, it's just kind of a long tradition to help with this auction and help Adele out. I've been there as long as its been going. It was a fast 20 years. I would do anything she asked me to do.
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The phrase is supposed to be satirical, but lots of people don't see the subtext.
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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.
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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.
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I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.
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Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.
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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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We're going to throw the football, ... We're hoping our team speed helps us get past those 300-pounders.
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We're going to throw the football. We're hoping our team speed helps us get past those 300-pounders.
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What we're seeing out of this area recruiting-wise are Division II kids, ... We don't have the biggest kids here.
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I just became one with my browser software.
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I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.