His wholehearted devotion to random artifacts satirizes the excesses of consumerism. The character of Zippy the Pinhead initially appeared in underground publications during the 1970s.
It also links the photos to the Zippy'' strip in which the location appeared. BBC/Current Affairs interview with Griffith by Phil Jupitus, 2008. American comic strips Gag-a-day comics Comics characters introduced in 1971 1971 comics debuts American comics characters Fictional American people Satirical comics Underground comix Metafictional comics Metafictional characters Surreal comedy Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area People with microcephaly Adult comics Male characters in comics
Zippy strips, 1979–1982. Pointed Behavior.
Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1981.
Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1982.
Zippy strips, 1983–1984. Are We Having Fun Yet? Zippy the Pinhead's 29 Day Guide to Random Activities and Arbitrary Donuts.
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1984.
When William Randolph Hearst III took over the San Francisco Examiner in 1985, he offered Griffith an opportunity to do Zippy as a daily strip.
New York: Dutton, 1985.
Zippy strips, 1985–1986. King Pin: New Zippy Strips.
Several months later it was picked up for worldwide daily distribution by King Features Syndicate in 1986.
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1986.
Zippy strips, 1986–7. Pinhead's Progress: More Zippy Strips.
Reprinted, San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1987.
New York: Dutton, 1987.
Zippy strips, 1987–8. From A to Zippy: Getting There Is All the Fun.
Zippy strips, 1988–90. Zippy's House of Fun: 54 Months of Sundays.
New York: Dutton, 1989.
The Sunday Zippy debuted in 1990.
(Color strips, May 1990 - September 1994) Zippy and beyond: A Pinhead's Progress - Comic Strips, Stories, Travel Sketches and Animation Material.
New York: Penguin Books, 1991.
San Francisco: Cartoon Art Museum, 1997. Zippy Quarterly (eighteen collections, published from January, 1993 until March, 1998) - no ISBN identification for these publications Zippy Annual: A millennial melange of microcephalic malapropisms and metaphysical muzak.
Reprinted, Seattle: Fantagraphics, 1994.
(Color strips, May 1990 - September 1994) Zippy and beyond: A Pinhead's Progress - Comic Strips, Stories, Travel Sketches and Animation Material.
Seattle: Fantagraphics, 1995.
An animated television series, to be produced by Film Roman and co-written by Diane Noomin, was in negotiations from 1996 to 2001. On July 9, 2004, Zippy made his stage debut in San Francisco in Fun: The Concept at the Dark Room Theatre.
San Francisco: Cartoon Art Museum, 1997. Zippy Quarterly (eighteen collections, published from January, 1993 until March, 1998) - no ISBN identification for these publications Zippy Annual: A millennial melange of microcephalic malapropisms and metaphysical muzak.
Zippy can be restored by replacing the yow file with one from an older Emacs. After Griffith criticized Scott Adams' comic Dilbert for being "a kind of childish, depleted shell of a once-vibrant medium," Adams responded a year and half later on May 18, 1998, with a comic strip called Pippy the Ziphead, "cramming as much artwork in as possible so no one will notice there's only one joke...
San Francisco: Cartoon Art Museum, 1997. Zippy Quarterly (eighteen collections, published from January, 1993 until March, 1998) - no ISBN identification for these publications Zippy Annual: A millennial melange of microcephalic malapropisms and metaphysical muzak.
1", "Impressions based on random data".) Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2000.
An animated television series, to be produced by Film Roman and co-written by Diane Noomin, was in negotiations from 1996 to 2001. On July 9, 2004, Zippy made his stage debut in San Francisco in Fun: The Concept at the Dark Room Theatre.
2", "April 2001 - September 2001".) Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2001.
3", "September 2001 - October 2002".) Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2002.
3", "September 2001 - October 2002".) Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2002.
4", "October 2002 - October 2003".) Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2003.
Zippy had, at last, found his home town." In regard to Zippy's famous catch phrase, at the 2003 University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, Griffith recalled the phone call from Bartlett's: Zippy's signature expression of surprise is "Yow!" ==Appearances elsewhere== Following rumors of a Zippy movie project that was never consummated, Griffith devoted dozens of strips to his real and imagined dealings with Hollywood.
4", "October 2002 - October 2003".) Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2003.
5", "November 2003 - November 2004".) Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2004.
Archived from the original on September 10, 2015 The Real Zip the Pinhead from Liberty Corner, New Jersey Still asking "Are we having fun yet?" by Bill Griffith, transcript of Griffith's talk at the 2003 University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels Photos of the opening night of the stage play Fun: The Concept The Heideggarian Disruptions of Zippy the Pinhead by Ellen Grabiner, Philosophy Now (June 2011) 2003 TV interview with Bill Griffith in his Connecticut studio.
An animated television series, to be produced by Film Roman and co-written by Diane Noomin, was in negotiations from 1996 to 2001. On July 9, 2004, Zippy made his stage debut in San Francisco in Fun: The Concept at the Dark Room Theatre.
5", "November 2003 - November 2004".) Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2004.
6", "December 2004 - December 2005".) Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2005, Connect the Polka Dots.
6", "December 2004 - December 2005".) Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2005, Connect the Polka Dots.
7", December 2005 - August 2006".) Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2006.
7", December 2005 - August 2006".) Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2006.
For a while the Zippy website encouraged people to send photos of interesting places for Zippy to visit in the strip. In 2007, Griffith began to focus his daily strip on the fictional city of Dingburg, Maryland, Zippy's "birthplace" which, according to the cartoonist, is located "17 miles west of Baltimore." Griffith said, "Over the years, I began to expand Zippy's circle of friends beyond my usual cast of characters to a wider world of people like Zippy--other pinheads.
Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2007.
Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2008.
It also links the photos to the Zippy'' strip in which the location appeared. BBC/Current Affairs interview with Griffith by Phil Jupitus, 2008. American comic strips Gag-a-day comics Comics characters introduced in 1971 1971 comics debuts American comics characters Fictional American people Satirical comics Underground comix Metafictional comics Metafictional characters Surreal comedy Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area People with microcephaly Adult comics Male characters in comics
Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2010.
Archived from the original on September 10, 2015 The Real Zip the Pinhead from Liberty Corner, New Jersey Still asking "Are we having fun yet?" by Bill Griffith, transcript of Griffith's talk at the 2003 University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels Photos of the opening night of the stage play Fun: The Concept The Heideggarian Disruptions of Zippy the Pinhead by Ellen Grabiner, Philosophy Now (June 2011) 2003 TV interview with Bill Griffith in his Connecticut studio.
Archived from the original on September 10, 2015 The Real Zip the Pinhead from Liberty Corner, New Jersey Still asking "Are we having fun yet?" by Bill Griffith, transcript of Griffith's talk at the 2003 University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels Photos of the opening night of the stage play Fun: The Concept The Heideggarian Disruptions of Zippy the Pinhead by Ellen Grabiner, Philosophy Now (June 2011) 2003 TV interview with Bill Griffith in his Connecticut studio.
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