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
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.
opposites parent
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
art smoking acid
When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
art romantic-love vision
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
sister father artistic
She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
religious vegetarianism feelings
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
team people over-you
What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.
hate kids thinking
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
american-cartoonist animation consider people rarely talked zippy
When the Zippy movie first started being talked about very rarely would people actually say animation to me, because I would never consider it.