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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I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

Bill Griffith

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

Bill Griffith

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

Bill Griffith

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.

Bill Griffith

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

Bill Griffith

Zippy is living in the moment.

Bill Griffith

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.

Bill Griffith

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

Bill Griffith

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

Bill Griffith

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

Bill Griffith

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

Bill Griffith

Author Bio

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