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
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.
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.
art romantic-love vision
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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.
artist years umpires
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
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.
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.
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.
hate kids thinking
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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.
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.