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A man dressed as Zippy the Pinhead jumps off a flatbed truck carrying three Doggie Diner heads in front of the San Francisco Chronicle. It was announced today that the Zippy comic will be brought ...
In the last few years, Bill Griffith, famous for his “Zippy the Pinhead” comic strips, has written two outstanding and unusual graphic biographies, this new one dedicated to the man and ...
Baby Blues, Zippy the Pinhead, Sylvia, Curtis, Amazing Spider Man, Piranha Club, ... Nearly 18,000 people responded to the comics poll recently published in Datebook -- and we listened.
Is Zippy the original Conehead? “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. … ...
Included are Beetle Bailey, Bizarro, Zits, Zippy the Pinhead, Popeye, Rex Morgan, M.D., Baby Blues, Buckle and many more. Readers can send comics via e-mail, make ratings and leave comments on the ...
Griffith has his own iconic comic character that he’s nurtured for half a century. He created Zippy the Pinhead when he was one of the pioneers of the independent underground comix movement in ...
Gary J. Iacocca was nearly speechless Friday, when he saw Yocco’s Hot Dog King talk for the first time. Iacocca, president of the 78-year-old Allentown fast-food chain, found his venerable co… ...
Zippy the Pinhead Scott speaks with Gene Wilkes, the owner of the Tastee Diner in Silver Spring, Maryland. His diner was featured last Sunday in the Zippy the Pinhead comic strip--a strip which ...
Not Bill Griffith, the artist behind “Zippy the Pinhead.” “He emailed me back right away and he said, ‘Well, not wearing pants is Zippy’s thing,’” said Fougner.
Fans of newspaper comics will instantly notice something missing in many of the strips this Friday — pants. More than 25 cartoonists behind strips from “Blondie” to “Zippy the Pinhead ...
The Denver Post has dumped “Zippy the Pinhead” and 21 other comic strips, none of which are especially familiar, although such decisions can always prove controversial for a newspaper, notes Westword, ...
Fans of newspaper comics will instantly notice something missing in many of the strips this Friday — pants ...