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
opposites parent
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
mother father army
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
jokes
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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.
frivolity
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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.
computer software browsers
I just became one with my browser software.
almost critical doubt full
His observations are almost an obsession. He's very neurotic, full of self-doubt, which he masquerades as being critical of everything.
coming east grew living talked wife
I grew up on Long Island, and my wife and I had always talked about coming back East some day and living in the country.
american-cartoonist art call comics east eight fine painted saw school until
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.
early encounter zippy
Before I started doing Zippy I had an early encounter with a Pinhead in 1969.
coach expects instill trying
Every coach here expects to win. We're trying to instill that in these kids.
american-cartoonist effort money point serious spent
At this point it's kind of a faded, tattered dream, but over the years there was some serious effort and a lot of serious money spent to make a movie.