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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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
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I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
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I just became one with my browser software.
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He's starting to learn defenses and starting to learn how to read defenses. He's more confident standing in the pocket and taking his time making a decision.
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I remember seeing one stuck to the window of a KFC. What could be more rewarding than to see your work assaulting the target of your satire?
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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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In making my strips the inspiration is really only the germ of something, they say it's 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration.
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In any comics, any animation, the artwork should be as important as anything else.
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Adele is one of the most, to coin a cliche, life-affirming people I've ever met, especially because of her bleak outlook,
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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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Cartooning has come a long way. It started out as an adult medium, for satirical purposes; then the appeal to children got emphasized.
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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.