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
levels way condescending
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
artist problem doing-good
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
bleak coin people
Adele is one of the most, to coin a cliche, life-affirming people I've ever met, especially because of her bleak outlook,
artwork
In any comics, any animation, the artwork should be as important as anything else.
animation drafts nine
I went through nine drafts of a screenplay; it had a whole plot, not just vignettes. Right now I'm getting a lot of feelers from animation companies.
germ strips
In making my strips the inspiration is really only the germ of something, they say it's 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration.
admit laugh light maybe shine trying zippy
I'm trying to shine a light on things that are recognizable in all of us, that Zippy embodies, that once we admit to, maybe we can laugh at.
american-cartoonist himself living peace step zippy
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.
football helps hoping past speed team throw
We're going to throw the football, ... We're hoping our team speed helps us get past those 300-pounders.
area biggest division kids seeing
What we're seeing out of this area recruiting-wise are Division II kids, ... We don't have the biggest kids here.
computer software browsers
I just became one with my browser software.
drawing style rich
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
people language
Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
meat life-is republican
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.