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
american-cartoonist animation consider people rarely talked zippy
When the Zippy movie first started being talked about very rarely would people actually say animation to me, because I would never consider it.
hate kids thinking
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
team people over-you
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.
religious vegetarianism feelings
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
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.
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.
mother father army
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
opposites parent
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
community kind conformity
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
light sides culture
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.