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Bill Griffith [1944-0] American

Rank: 103
Cartoonist

William Henry Jackson Griffith 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 in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

Computers, Romantic, Technology

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Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.		101
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.		102
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.		103
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.	Technology	104
I just became one with my browser software.	Computers	105
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.		106
Are we having fun yet?		107
Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.		108
I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.		109
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.		110
Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.		111
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.		112
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.		113
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.		114
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.		115
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.		116
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.		117
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.		118
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.		119
Zippy is living in the moment.		120
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.		121
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.		122
My first character was Mr. Toad.		123
Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.		124
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.		125
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.		126
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.	Romantic	201
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.		202
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.		203
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.		204
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.		205

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