Top 36 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Griffith

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

William Henry Jackson Griffith is an American cartoonist who signs his work Bill Griffith and Griffy. He is best known for his surreal daily comic strip Zippy. The catchphrase "Are we having fun yet?" is credited to Griffith.

American - Cartoonist | Born: January 20, 1944

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I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

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

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

Bill Griffith

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

Bill Griffith

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

Bill Griffith

Are we having fun yet?

Bill Griffith

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

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

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.

Bill Griffith

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

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

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

Bill Griffith

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

Bill Griffith

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

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

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

Bill Griffith

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

Bill Griffith

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

Bill Griffith

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

Bill Griffith

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

Bill Griffith

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

Bill Griffith

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

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

My first character was Mr. Toad.

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

Bill Griffith

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

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

Zippy is living in the moment.

Bill Griffith

I just became one with my browser software.

Bill Griffith

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.

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

Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.

Bill Griffith

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

Bill Griffith

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.

Bill Griffith

Top 36 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Griffith

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