Is Bill Griffith Having Fun Yet? Cartoonist talks "Zippy"  Mon,
October 6th, 2008 at 5:17pm PDT | Updated: October 6th, 2008 at
5:18pm  Comic Books Alex Dueben, Staff Writer  "Zippy: From Here
To Absurdity" and other books on sale now  There is nothing else
on the comics page of any newspaper quite like “Zippy.” When the
definitive history of underground comics is written, there will
be a chapter about Bill Griffith.  A graduate of the Pratt
Institute, Griffith has worked since 1969 as a cartoonist for a
wide range of publications including Screw, High Times, The
National Lampoon, and The New Yorker magazine. His most famous
character, Zippy, has become an international icon, appearing on
the Berlin Wall; has been the subject of doctoral dissertations;
and his trademark phrase “Are we having fun yet?” is in
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.  Griffith has been praised as
one of the great cartoonists to be found in newspapers today, as
well as denounced for being “incomprehensible.” An incredibly
talented artist,