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From Publishers Weekly
Subscribers to newspapers that run Zippy the Pinhead should be grateful for just how wonderful their world is. Every day they can open up the funnies and among formulaic strips read about a freak (of the Tod Browning variety) in a muu-muu who helps us comprehend our pop culture—soaked world in a most postmodern way. It’s rare to find something so smart that’s so accessible. To help newcomers get a handle on the strip， this collection opens with the six-part series Understand Zippy. Zippy and Griffith’s cartoon alter—ego， Griffy， explain the philosophy of the strip， declaring that the boundary between high and low art shall not be observed and the absurd in life will be appreciated to the fullest. The rest of the book lives up to its promises with most of the strips revolving around Zippy speaking to roadside attractions—when he isn’t speaking to works of cubism， that is. Griffith draws his characters in a stylized manner， but the real-life attractions (catalogued in the ?Pindex? found in the back of the book) are drawn photorealistically. They blend together so well because of the compatible meeting of the bizarre. This is a strip that thrives on the mix between the real and the unreal. (Mar.)
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Book Description
A year of the pinhead in one volume. Bill Griffith’s Zippy the Pinhead is a pop culture icon. Born in underground comix， the surrealist-leaning character is now one of the most recognizable figures on the newspaper pages， seen by tens of millions of people a day. Syndicated by King Features since 1986， Zippy is read in over 200 daily newspapers across the country， seven days a week. Zippy’s trademark non-sequitur， ?Are we having fun yet?，? has become so often-repeated that it’s now in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. His likeness has been graffitied on the Berlin Wall， aped by Dan Aykroyd for Saturday Night Live’s ?Conehead? sketches， and suffered through perpetual Hollywood option hell since the Reagan administration. Zippy Annual 2002 collects approximately a year’s worth of strips， including full-color Sundays， from 2001 and 2002. This new volume includes several continuing storylines. One follows the high drama when Zippy’s own favorite (fictional) comic strip， ?Nimrod，? is dropped from his daily newspaper， a thinly disguised parody of what happened when one of Zippy’s papers tried (and failed) to drop Griffith’s strip. Also， Zippy bumps into dead newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst， visits innumerable roadside attractions， and reacts to the events of September 11th， 2001， in a series of emotionally-charged strips. Frivolity is a stern taskmaster， and these brilliantly designed strips (Griffith is a master of the increasingly antiquated process of hand-separated four-color printing) have never reproduced better， making Zippy Annual 2002 a perfect showcase for Griffith’s inimitably existential and surreal sense of humor， a must-have and perfect gift book for the millions who find Zippy a rare diamond in the rough of today’s newspaper comic pages.
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