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Zippy Annuals #2
Zippy Annual 2001
Collection of Zippy the Pinhead newspaper comic strips from 2000 - 2001. 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 taskmasker, 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 streaches the intellectual bounds of the daily newspaper strip," writes the San Francisco Examiner. Plus, it's damn funny.
128 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2001
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January 4, 2014
To begin this review, let me tell you how much I hated this book and why.
1. Terrible plot
2. The characters were terrible
3. I couldn't finish this book; it's too long and not worth reading
4. Nothing makes sense (but now that I think of it, I don't think it's supposed to).
This book barely even has a plot. Of course, each page was made up of three strips stretched across it, containing three or four panels and in these panels was a person (I can't tell if it is a woman or a man) who had a couple of hairs growing out of it's head with a bow around it, an orange dress decorated with yellow polka-dots, and an honestly creepy face with an after-shave on it. And that person was named Zippy and it's best friend had dirty-blonde hair, a long nose and wore a tuxedo. His name was Griffy.
There's a giant dog head, a giant goose and a giant guy holding a muffler and wearing a funny hat that talks to Zippy, and when Zippy sees something he repeatedly repeats the name or title of it until the three panels are over. He'd say something like 'My name's Zippy, My name's Zippy, My name's Zippy! My name's Zippy, My name's Zippy, My name's Zippy! My name's Zippy, My name's Zippy, My name's Zippy!'
I didn't fill out 'date I finished this book due to the obvious fact that I couldn't. I rate this book a one and if you decide to read this book then you will, too.
1. Terrible plot
2. The characters were terrible
3. I couldn't finish this book; it's too long and not worth reading
4. Nothing makes sense (but now that I think of it, I don't think it's supposed to).
This book barely even has a plot. Of course, each page was made up of three strips stretched across it, containing three or four panels and in these panels was a person (I can't tell if it is a woman or a man) who had a couple of hairs growing out of it's head with a bow around it, an orange dress decorated with yellow polka-dots, and an honestly creepy face with an after-shave on it. And that person was named Zippy and it's best friend had dirty-blonde hair, a long nose and wore a tuxedo. His name was Griffy.
There's a giant dog head, a giant goose and a giant guy holding a muffler and wearing a funny hat that talks to Zippy, and when Zippy sees something he repeatedly repeats the name or title of it until the three panels are over. He'd say something like 'My name's Zippy, My name's Zippy, My name's Zippy! My name's Zippy, My name's Zippy, My name's Zippy! My name's Zippy, My name's Zippy, My name's Zippy!'
I didn't fill out 'date I finished this book due to the obvious fact that I couldn't. I rate this book a one and if you decide to read this book then you will, too.
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