Sunday Funnies: ZIPPY

ZIPPY THE PINHEAD is a character that suffers from Microcephaly. He first appeared in in Real Pulp Comix #1 in March 1971.

In the intervening years, he was a regular character in HIGH TIMES Magazine, and had quite a few other regular appearances in some other underground and/or counterculture publications.

Currently, the strip is syndicated in a very few (100 + or - a few) newspapers, but still maintains a fairly active cult following.

Here's a brief overview of what you can expect from the strip:

by Bill Griffith
from ZIPPY QUARTERLY #1, January, 1993


Totally 'stream-of-thought' Sunday strips:


Off-model comedy strips:


Weird art experiments:


Surprise guest appearances by golden-age comix characters:




Even more alternative art experiments:


Believe it or not, tho'... Mr. Griffith based these characters on real people?!?:


Sometimes, Griffy tries to be like Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, or Joe Sacco and tells a few autobiographical details about himself:


But then he goes right back into being weird again:


His 'weirdness' does pay off when he stretches way beyond the limits of the medium of newspaper comics and takes his strip beyond the accepted norm:


Bill does know his 'golden-age' sensibilities very well; as witnessed in this story arc:




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