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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.
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.
“About something”
Today’s Zippy: Zippy, Claude Funston, Griffy, a counterman, and Edward Hopper.
Guernica wear
In today’s Zippy, Griffy notes that museums sell Picasso everything — mousepads, T-shirtscoffee mugs. “What’s next?” he wonders. “Guernica bedsheets and party dresses??” I wouldn’t have believed it. But you can find a Guernica skirt, complete with Picasso signatures along the waistband, front and back, at Etsy.
Zippy Nighthawks
Zippy, Claude Funston, Griffy, and a naïf in a baseball cap.
マンホール蓋
Today’s Zippy takes us to Japan, where manhole covers are things of beauty.
Review: Bill Griffith’s Nobody’s Fool
Bill Griffith’s graphic biography of Schlitzie is a work of scholarly imagination, working with the facts of Schlitzie’s life to create an affectionate portrait of a remarkable human being.
Ink, nibs, and Zip-a-Tone
“One by one, all th’ art supplies of my youth are disappearing!”
Review: Bill Griffith’s Invisible Ink
We are born with the dead, trailing clouds, or dragging chains, of familial inheritance.