Synopses & Reviews
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The smartest, funniest, most culturally forward-looking syndicated feature in American newspapers...celebrate this wonderful bundle of the stuff. (The Sun, 24 September 2002)
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Sublimely wacky. (Booklist, Ray Olson)
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Griffith's a master! (Playboy)
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Not since Rabelais or Twain has down-to-earth humor packed such a profound, and at the same time sublime, punch! (Los Angeles Reader)
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Zippy is the ultimate amalgamation of the insane, the absurd and the hilarious. (Stanford Daily)
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Zippy the Pinhead: he's like a word processor with dyslexia! (Robin Williams)
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Zippy is the court jester of the 20th century. (Harvard Independent)
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Holds the higher ground of the daily newspaper strips. (Spin)
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He's like an evolutionary perfect combination of Wittgenstein, McLuhan and Alfred E. Neuman, commenting on life in the fast lane. (People)
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Smart, erudite and very funny! (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
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Most of America doesn't understand Zippy, the best daily comic strip printed today. Here's help. (Andrew Arnold, Time.com, 22 January 2002)
Synopsis
Seen by tens of millions of readers every day, Bill Griffith's Zippy is a pop-culture icon. The Zippy Annual #1 collects a huge selection of Griffith's strips from 1998 and 1999 to guide us all into the 21st Century. SC, 160pg, PC