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
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.
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.
people language
Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
meat life-is republican
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
character firsts toads
My first character was Mr. Toad.
artist years umpires
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
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.
opposites parent
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
mother father army
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
jokes
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
real kids body
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.