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
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.
levels way condescending
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
frivolity
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
real kids body
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.
jokes
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
character feminist littles
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
acid bigs acid-rain
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
art new-york school
I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.
wind ifs
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
rock-and-roll america rocks
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
half pleasure
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
character firsts toads
My first character was Mr. Toad.