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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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.
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Adele is one of the most, to coin a cliche, life-affirming people I've ever met, especially because of her bleak outlook,
artwork
In any comics, any animation, the artwork should be as important as anything else.
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I went through nine drafts of a screenplay; it had a whole plot, not just vignettes. Right now I'm getting a lot of feelers from animation companies.
germ strips
In making my strips the inspiration is really only the germ of something, they say it's 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration.
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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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Sometimes when people read Zippy they're expecting it to fall into the same formula as some other comics. That's not what I do.
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Zippy has no problem with the irrationality of the universe, whereas most of us are desperately trying to make order out of the universe, and our lives.
mtv unless
MTV won't do anything unless they own it 100% so that didn't tempt me at all because I would never give away the character.