Bill Griffith Quotes

• All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

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• A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

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• Are we having fun yet?

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  Tags in Fun

• 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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  Topics in Technology

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

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  Topics in Love

• Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

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

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• I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

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• I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

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• I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

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

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• 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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  Topics in Art

  Tags in School

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

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  Topics in Life

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

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  Tags in Culture

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

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  Tags in Metaphor, Attention

• 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.

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

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  Tags in Kind

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

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  Tags in Feminist

• My first character was Mr. Toad.

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

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  Topics in Art

Bill Griffith (29)

Birth:	20th January, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cartoonist

About

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.

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