Who would have imagined in 1970 that Zippy the Pinhead would become a national icon, up there with Pogo, Charlie Brown, and Mr. Natural? “Never in my wildest underground imaginings did I foresee ...

His diner was featured last Sunday in the Zippy the Pinhead comic strip—a strip which touted the virtues and endurance of diners.

the Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead tells the life story of Schlitzie, the microcephalic sideshow performer who inspired Griffith’s iconic cartoon character Zippy the Pinhead.

“Tell me th’ story again, Griffy!! Tell me th’ story!!!” Zippy the Pinhead implored his creator’s cranky alter ego in a June 28 strip. The story, according to San Francisco cartoonist ...

You probably know the rest. In Griffith’s imagination, Schlitzie transmuted into Zippy the Pinhead, and Zippy somehow wandered into the syndicated world of daily comic strips starting in 1986 ...

Next weekend, she’ll be sitting in the audience at the Theatre Project, watching the world premiere of her musical based on a contentedly clueless comic-strip Pinhead named Zippy. The symmetry ...