Zippy Annual 2001 (Vol. 2) - Softcover

Griffith, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560974729 ISBN 13: 9781560974727

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2001

Synopsis

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Bill Griffith's Zippy the Pinhead is a pop culture icon. Born in underground comix, the surrealist character is now one of the most recognizable characters on the newspaper pages, and is currently in production as an animated series to debut on the Showtime Network in 2002. Syndicated since 1986 by King Features, ZIPPY is read in over 200
newspapers seven days a week. Zippy's trademark non-sequitur, "Are we having fun yet?" has become so often-repeated that it is now in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. His likeness was graphittied on the former Berlin Wall, while Dan Akroyd is rumored to have created his Saturday Night Live characters, the Coneheads, after seeing Zippy for the first time. With Zippy Annual 2001 (a.k.a. "Z2K1"), all of Griffith's hilarious strips from 2000 and 2001 are collected into one place to guide us into the 21st Century. Millennium fever never seemed so, well, absurd. Frivolity is a stern taskmaster, and these brilliant
black-and-white dailies and color Sundays (Griffith is a master of color and the printing process of the newspaper page) spotlight Griffith's inimitably existential and surreal sense of humor. "Bill Griffith's nationally syndicated Zippy continually stretches the intellectual bounds of the daily newspaper strip," writes the San Francisco Examiner.
Plus, it's damn funny.
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About this title

About the Author:

Bill Griffith began his career in underground comix in the late-'60s with the East Village Other and Al Goldstein's Screw magazine. He co-edited the seminal Arcade anthology in the '70s with Art Spiegelman and created Zippy in 1970. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, the cartoonist Diane Noomin.

Review:

Zippy is the ultimate amalgamation of the insane, the absurd and the hilarious. -- Stanford Daily

Cartoonist Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead, has achieved immortality. -- Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle

Griffith's a master! -- Playboy

Not since Rabelais or Twain has down-to-earth humor packed such a profound, and at the same time sublime, punch! -- Los Angeles Reader

Philosophically, Zippy's like an evolutionary perfect combination of Wittgenstein, Marshall McLuhan and Alfred E. Neuman. -- People magazine

Smart, erudite and very funny! -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Sublimely wacky. -- Booklist, Ray Olson, 1 January 2002

The smartest, funniest, most culturally forward-looking syndicated feature in American newspapers...celebrate this wonderful bundle of the stuff. -- The Sun, 24 September 2002

Totally wigged-out, oddly endearing, off-the-wall hysterical! -- Village Voice

[T]he best daily comic strip printed today.... Griffith has brought back the art of drawing to the comics page. -- Time.com, Andrew D. Arnold, 22 January 2002

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1560974729
• ISBN 13: 9781560974727
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128