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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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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The phrase is supposed to be satirical, but lots of people don't see the subtext.
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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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We're going to throw the football. We're hoping our team speed helps us get past those 300-pounders.
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.
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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.
half pleasure
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
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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.
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If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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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.