Synopsis
by Bill Griffith
Collects a year's worth of strips, including full-color Sundays, and spotlights Zippy's ongoing love affair with "Brand X" America. Travel to the "Neon Boneyard," Barnum's sideshow, Japan, Levittown, and the early 1900s. Also, politically incorrect strips featuring Zippy and Griffy.
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About the Author
Bill Griffith is the artist behind the legendary weekly comic Zippy. Griffith's prolific output has been included in such publications as the Village Voice, National Lampoon, and the New Yorker. Along with Art Spiegelman, Griffith co-founded the influential anthology Arcade and is credited for coining the popular phrase, "Are we Having Fun Yet?" He currently lives in Connecticut with his wife, the cartoonist Diane Noomin.
Reviews
As the third Zippy annual opens, Griffy (Griffith's alter ego and Zippy the Pinhead's number-one pal) has decided Zippy's worship of oversize roadside icons and weird snacks must stop. "There's more to life, much more," he says, as he leads Zippy to . . . Coney Island. "Life is about people, Zippy, in all their wretched splendor, not fiberglass hot dogs!" Griffy has forgotten, however, the giant Sof-serv cone atop a Boardwalk snack stand, the giant bug head at the front of a roller coaster, and the giant face of George C. Tilyou, Coney's first great entrepreneur. Zippy admires Coney, but his coast-to-coast joyride ("Jack Kerouac is a stern taskmaster") in search of big stuff and barely digestible sustenance cannot be curtailed. "Whew," say all devotees of the ongoing critique of America's love affair with publicity that is Griffith's great strip. How great? Well, what other strips ask, "Are you really th' 'Missing Link'? And if so, where does that leave Keanu Reeves?" Ray Olson
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Zippy Annual, 2003
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Fantagraphics Books, Inc., Seattle, Washington, 2003
ISBN 10: 1560975636
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Zippy Annual 2003, Volume Four
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