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
artist years umpires
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
acid bigs acid-rain
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
reality way attention
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
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.
mother father army
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
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.
bleak coin people
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.
animation drafts nine
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.
admit laugh light maybe shine trying zippy
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.
american-cartoonist himself living peace step zippy
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.
almost critical doubt full
His observations are almost an obsession. He's very neurotic, full of self-doubt, which he masquerades as being critical of everything.