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.

The thought then occurred 'Where do all these friends of Zippy live? Do they live in the real world which Zippy has been seen escaping for years—or do they live apart in a pinhead world of their own?' Thus Dingburg 'The City Inhabited Entirely by Pinheads' was born. Zippy
The first Zippy strip appeared in the underground Real Pulp #1 (Print Mint) in 1971. "
Years ago as continuity strips gave way to humor strips typeset episode subtitles vaniBill Griffithd from strips.

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 (16th edition 1992).