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
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.
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Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
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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'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.
germ strips
In making my strips the inspiration is really only the germ of something, they say it's 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration.
artwork
In any comics, any animation, the artwork should be as important as anything else.
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I've known Crumb for twenty-five years and no movie could affect my opinion of him.
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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.
early encounter zippy
Before I started doing Zippy I had an early encounter with a Pinhead in 1969.
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Every coach here expects to win. We're trying to instill that in these kids.
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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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At this point, it's just kind of a long tradition to help with this auction and help Adele out. I've been there as long as its been going. It was a fast 20 years. I would do anything she asked me to do.
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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.