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
half pleasure
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
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.
coming east grew living talked wife
I grew up on Long Island, and my wife and I had always talked about coming back East some day and living in the country.
mtv unless
MTV won't do anything unless they own it 100% so that didn't tempt me at all because I would never give away the character.
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.
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.
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.
area biggest division kids seeing
What we're seeing out of this area recruiting-wise are Division II kids, ... We don't have the biggest kids here.
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.
wind ifs
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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.