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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The phrase is supposed to be satirical, but lots of people don't see the subtext.
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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.
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Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
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When the Zippy movie first started being talked about very rarely would people actually say animation to me, because I would never consider it.
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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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Adele is one of the most, to coin a cliche, life-affirming people I've ever met, especially because of her bleak outlook,
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Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.
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Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.
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I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.
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But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
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We're going to throw the football. We're hoping our team speed helps us get past those 300-pounders.
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We're going to throw the football, ... We're hoping our team speed helps us get past those 300-pounders.
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What we're seeing out of this area recruiting-wise are Division II kids, ... We don't have the biggest kids here.
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Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.