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Biff is a given name or nickname, the latter often awarded based on physical stature.
People with the name Biff [link]
- Biff Byford, British vocalist of heavy metal band Saxon
- "Biff" Frank Dunlap, a Canadian hockey player
- "Biff" Jackson Henderson Jr., stage manager and American television personality on The Late Show with David Letterman
- Biff Jones, a former college football head coach and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
- Biff Manard, American actor
- Biff Pocoroba, a former Major League Baseball catcher
- Biff Rose, an American comedian and singer-songwriter
- Biff Schaller, a player for the Detroit Tigers
- Biff Schlitzer, a player for the Boston Red Sox
- Richard "Biff" Stannard, a British songwriter
- Biff Yeager, an American actor
- Graeme Smith, a South African cricketer
Fictional [link]
- Sully and Biff, characters from Sesame Street
- Brian Ian Francis "Biff" Fowler, a character in the ITV soap Emmerdale
- Biff Hooper, friend of the Hardy Boys in the famous novel series, The Hardy Boys.
- Biff Loman, son of Willy Loman in the play Death of a Salesman
- Biff Tannen, a character in the Back to the Future film trilogy
- "Biff", a nickname of George Costanza, named after Loman
- "Biff", the nickname of Levi, Jesus' best friend in Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
- "Biff" cartoons in Britain
- Biff Brannon, a character in Carson McCullers's novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Biff Wilcox, a character that Rusty James fights in the S. E. Hinton novel, Rumble Fish.
Animals [link]
- Biff, the Michigan Wolverine a mascot for Michigan Wolverines football in the 1920s and 30's.
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Biff (disambiguation)
Biff may refer to:
People
Computer-related terms
Film festivals
Other uses
Biff (cartoon)
Biff is a British cartoon strip, created by Chris Garratt and Mick Kidd, which debuted in 1982 and has appeared in the newspaper The Guardian from 1985 onwards (Biff Weekend ran there weekly for 20 years). The comic originated in a series of single-panel postcards before evolving into multi-panel comic strips. It has also been published in the magazine Viz and since 2001 in the magazine of the Rough Guides.
The cartoons are notable for their absurd, ironic, satirical and metafictional edge.
History
Chris Garratt and Mick Kidd met at grammar school in the 1950s and have collaborated on Biff since the mid-1970s. Chris Garratt creates the artwork (a mixture of collage, found images, tracings and original drawings) and Mick Kidd is responsible for the text. Kidd lives in London and Garratt in the Scilly Isles. They have created their strips and other artwork over the last 30 years by means of phone, post, email and occasional meetings.
In 2007 Chris Garratt introduced a retrospective of Biff work in these terms:
