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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Every coach here expects to win. We're trying to instill that in these kids.
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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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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.
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The phrase is supposed to be satirical, but lots of people don't see the subtext.
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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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Before I started doing Zippy I had an early encounter with a Pinhead in 1969.
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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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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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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.
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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.