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
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.
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.
rock-and-roll america rocks
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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.
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.
art romantic-love vision
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
reality way attention
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
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.
character firsts toads
My first character was Mr. Toad.
artist years umpires
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
light sides culture
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
community kind conformity
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.