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New light on the Leona Helmsley Club.
Downtown Dingburg
Zippy in a dowdy world.
Life and print in New Jersey
Zippy wants The Star-Ledger and The Jersey Journal not to die.
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Another Hopper Zippy.
Zippy Hopper
Today’s Zippy is a thing of beauty. The source: Edward Hopper’s Excursion into Philosophy.
Rocks, unnoticed
Zippy is looking at his phone.
Word of the day: frisket
“Th’ space outside th’ panels is un-specked because a frisket is being used to confine th’ spattered areas!”
Zippy collars
Today’s Zippy, about how to draw shirt collars, is just one more bit of evidence attesting to Bill Griffith’s draftsmanship. See also fedoras and sleeves.
Siamese connections
Today’s Zippy honors a bit of urban design: the Siamese connection.
Hard-boiled Zippy
Today’s Zippy channels Raymond Chandler.
Drawing cloth and clothing
Today’s Zippy is all about cloth and clothing and the work of the “fine artist.” Bill Griffith is of course an artist and cartoonist both.
“Films noir”
Today’s Zippy is all noir.
Zippy noir
Beautiful noir art in today’s Zippy.
Zippy and Trixie
Zippy speaks to the ghost of Joyce Randolph.
Marcus, Wal-Mart, pickleball
All things go, all things go.
A Calvino “over and over”
TOMAHAWK COGNAC, TOMAHAWK COGNAC, TOMAHAWK COGNAC.
Leggings
Is today’s strip, in which Little Zippy draws his favorite cartoon character, a comment on Olivia Jaimes’s Nancy?
“Pickleball infrastructure?”
I show up in Zippy.
Read Zippy tomorrow
All I’m gonna say is that anyone who reads Orange Crate Art should read Zippy tomorrow.
Griffy, Zippy, and NPR
“Th’ reassuring timbre of Mary Louise Kelly, th’ velvety tones of Steve Inskeep, th’ friendly chatter of Ari Shapiro, th’ lilting warmth of Audie Cornish.”
Bill Griffith, notebook user
“I have a notebook that I always keep in my pocket, because I never know when an idea will come up, a punchline, an idea. I try to never censor myself. I write it down immediately in my notebook.”
Jack Hamm’s Cartooning
Bill Griffith has been invoking Jack Hamm’s Cartooning the Head and Figure in Zippy this week: on Wednesday, Thursday, and again today. And lo: the book is available at archive.org.
Intertextuality
Peanuts in Hi and Lois, Nancy in Zippy.
An “over and over”
“Pickleball infrastructure! Pickleball infrastructure! Pickleball infrastructure!”
“Triptych! Trilogy! Troika!”
Today’s Zippy is all about some rocks.
Early rocks
In today’s Zippy, an early lesson in geology.
Drake Lives
A Paul Drake imitator.
Sluggo-head
Zippy meets a Sluggo-head with muffler-man pants in today’s Zippy.
Three mascots
In today’s Zippy, three mascots: Gertrude, L’il Softee, and Good Sam.
Zippy, re: Nancy
A diner patron doesn’t get the new Nancy.