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Bill Griffith Biography

William Henry Jackson "Bill" Griffith (born January 20, 1944) is an 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.

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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.

Artistic, Father, Sister, Took

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

Army, Father, Man, Mixture, Mother, Writer

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

Food, Proportions, Refraining, Religious, Toward, Vegetarianism

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

Community, Conformity, Imitation, Kind, Unfortunately

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

Calvin, Hate, Kid, Kids, Thinking

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

Attention, Days, Reality, Struck, Way

My first character was Mr. Toad.

Character, Firsts, Toad, Toads

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

Alaska, Character, Comic, Feminist, Strip

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

Acid, Acid Rain, Bigs, Personally, Yes

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

Drawback, Drawing, Full, Rich, Style

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.

Adults, Hobbes, Kids, Nothing, Real, Using

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.

Art, Artist, Marijuana, Pot, Smoking

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

Art, Eight, New York, Painted, Saw, School

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

Culture, Light, Like, Pop, Side, Sides

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

Ifs, Life, Strip, Wind, Winds

I just became one with my browser software.

Became, Browser, Browsers, Computer, Software

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

Joke, Jokes, Levittown, Thought

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.

Animated, Feature, Over You, People, Takes, Team

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

Diametrically, Opposite, Opposites, Parent, Parents, Set

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

Condescending, Everybody, Level, Levels, Loves, Way