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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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.
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At this point it's kind of a faded, tattered dream, but over the years there was some serious effort and a lot of serious money spent to make a movie.
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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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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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Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.
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Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.
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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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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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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.
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Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.