Bill Griffith is the artist behind the legendary weekly comic Zippy. Griffith's prolific output has been included in such publications as the Village Voice, National Lampoon, and the New Yorker. Along with Art Spiegelman, Griffith co-founded the influential anthology Arcade and is credited for coining the popular phrase, "Are we Having Fun Yet?" He currently lives in Connecticut with his wife, the cartoonist Diane Noomin.
Starred Review: [Griffith's] intricate drawing style, which
exploits a range of backdrops, from blank to near-photorealistic
depictions of architecture, complements the richness of hisverbal
narration and the veracity and particularity of the dialogue he
creates for the many relatives andfamily friends he portrays ...
[A]bsorbing and moving.--Ray Olson
What makes this story extraordinary is that Bill Griffith has definitely met his match with his mother who gives his storytelling skills a run for their money. If truth is stranger than fiction, then this must be one hell of an example of that. It boggled the mind of Bill Griffith, one of the great mind-bogglers in comics.
--Henry Chamberlain |
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