Bill Griffith Quotes

• Zippy is living in the moment.

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

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

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• 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.

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• When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren’t stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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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.

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• My first character was Mr. Toad.

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

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

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

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

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• I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

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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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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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