Griffy

Bill Griffith
Bill Griffith, 25 March 2012
Born	William Henry Jackson Griffith (1944-01-20) January 20, 1944 (age 73) Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Residence	East Haddam, Connecticut, U.S.
Other names	Griffy
Occupation	Cartoonist
Years active	1969—
Spouse(s)	Nancy Griffith (div. c. 1972) Diane Noomin
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William Henry Jackson "Bill" 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 popular catchphrase "Are we having fun yet?" is credited to Griffith.

Born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, Griffith grew up in Levittown, New York on Long Island. One of his neighbors was science fiction illustrator Ed Emshwiller, whom he credits with pointing him towards the world of art.

Griffith began his comics career in New York City in 1969. His first comic strips in the East Village Other and Screw featured an angry amphibian named Mr. The Toad.

In 1969, Griffith began making underground comix. He ventured to San Francisco, California in 1970 to join its burgeoning underground comix movement and gained prominence in it, first with a hit comic Young Lust, "an X-rated parody of girl's romance comics." and co-created with cartoonist Jay Kinney. Other early major comic book titles included Tales of Toad. He co-founded the comics anthology Arcade, the Comics Revue with Art Spiegelman and co-edited for its seven-issue run in the mid-1970s. Griffith has worked with the leading underground publishers throughout that decade and up to the present: Print Mint, Last Gasp, Rip Off Press, Kitchen Sink and Fantagraphics Books. He contributed comics and illustrations to a variety of publications, including National Lampoon, High Times, The New Yorker, The Village Voice and The New York Times.