Quotes by Bill Griffith

About Bill Griffith:

William Henry Jackson Griffith is 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 (16th edition, 1992).
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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

Bill Griffith

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.

Bill Griffith

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.

Bill Griffith

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Bill Griffith

I just became one with my browser software.

Bill Griffith

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

Bill Griffith

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.

Bill Griffith

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

Bill Griffith

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Bill Griffith

Are we having fun yet?

Bill Griffith

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Bill Griffith

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

Bill Griffith

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

Bill Griffith

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

Bill Griffith

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

Bill Griffith

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

Bill Griffith

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Bill Griffith

My first character was Mr. Toad.

Bill Griffith

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

Bill Griffith

Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.

Bill Griffith

Author Bio

  • NameBill Griffith
  • DescriptionCartoonist
  • BornJanuary 20, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionComics Artist