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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Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.
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Before I started doing Zippy I had an early encounter with a Pinhead in 1969.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.