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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Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
reality way attention
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
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Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
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The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
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Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
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I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
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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.
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I've known Crumb for twenty-five years and no movie could affect my opinion of him.
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His observations are almost an obsession. He's very neurotic, full of self-doubt, which he masquerades as being critical of everything.
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I remember seeing one stuck to the window of a KFC. What could be more rewarding than to see your work assaulting the target of your satire?
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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.
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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.
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He's starting to learn defenses and starting to learn how to read defenses. He's more confident standing in the pocket and taking his time making a decision.
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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.