Bill Griffith Quotes

United States, Cartoonist
January 20, 1944

William Henry Jackson 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 catchphrase "Are we having fun yet?" is credited to 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.

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- School
- Art
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

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.

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

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

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

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

Bill Griffith