History ComicStrip / ZippyThePinhead

It might be the strangest comic strip ''ever'' published in newspapers, and that's saying a lot for a medium that gave birth to ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'', ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' (and its various copycats), and more recently, ''ComicStrip/{{Lio}}''. Its drawing style, realistic and intricate and yet otherworldly, would not have been out of place in the early days of NewspaperComics. The writing itself is a string of non sequiturs and dreamlike scenarios, with no real punchlines in the traditional sense.

* WidgetSeries

[[caption-width-right:192:[[CatchPhrase Are We]] [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Having]] [[StopHavingFunGuys Fun]] [[AreWeThereYet Yet?]]]]

* CatchPhrase: Zippy has several, including "Are we having fun yet?" and "Yow!"

* DadaComic
* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: Zippy has conversations with numerous odd statues. Some of which look like him.

''Zippy the Pinhead'' (or ''Zippy [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma th']] Pinhead'' or simply ''Zippy!'') is a syndicated comic strip written by Bill Griffith. Zippy first appeared in ''"Real Pulp Comix''" #1 (March, 1971) and went on to appear in UndergroundComics. Then was adapted to a comic strip in 1976. In 1986, a deal between Griffith and King Features ensured much greater distribution than before.

It might be the strangest comic strip ''ever'' published in newspapers, and that's saying a lot for a medium that gave birth to ''KrazyKat'', ''TheFarSide'' (and its various copycats), and more recently, ''{{Lio}}''. Its drawing style, realistic and intricate and yet otherworldly, would not have been out of place in the early days of NewspaperComics. The writing itself is a string of non sequiturs and dreamlike scenarios, with no real punchlines in the traditional sense.

'''Provides examples of:'''

* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Zippy wears a bow on his head, but his wife Zerbina's bow is outrageously bigger.

** One particular statue, the muffler-holding [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Muffler Man]], was a major recurring character.

* {{Gonk}}: The San Francisco Doggie Diner; Zippy himself (partly inspired by a microcephalic character from ''{{Freaks}}'').

* ShoutOut: To ''GarfieldMinusGarfield'', [[http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/2010/images/050810.gif here]].

* AuthorAppeal - diners and roadside memorabilia.
* AuthorAvatar - Griffy, a very nervous and self-deprecating example.

* {{Cloudcuckooland}} - Dingburg, the strip's setting.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - Zippy, of course.
* CompanionCube: Zippy talks to the above roadside memorabilia. It talks back to him.

* EenieMeenieMinyMoai - Zippy has conversations with numerous odd statues. Some of which look like him.
* EvilTwin - Zippy's cynical, business-suited doppelganger, [[http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=21-Apr-97&Category_Code=a1997&Product_Count=17 Lippy]].

* GreasySpoon - an increasing number of strips have occured in diners. Griffith even sponsored a few color Sunday strips devoted to saving various diners and roadside ornaments from demolition.
* LimitedWardrobe - Zippy and the other Dingburgers all wear the same style of muu-muu.

* RecursiveCanon - The Dingburg strips are revealed to be the fictional creation of the in-universe Griffy, as a result of his obsession with Zippy and the other pinheads. God has referred to it as real, but he has been explicitly stated as being an idea. Mr. The Toad has also managed to worm his way into Griffy's work, and thus into Dingburg.
* ShoutOut - to ''GarfieldMinusGarfield'', [[http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/2010/images/050810.gif here]].

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall

* PaintingTheFourthWall

''Zippy the Pinhead'' (or ''Zippy [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma th']] Pinhead'') is a syndicated comic strip written by Bill Griffith. Zippy first appeared in ''"Real Pulp Comix''" #1 (March, 1971) and went on to appear in UndergroundComics. Then was adapted to a comic strip in 1976. In 1986, a deal between Griffith and King Features ensured much greater distribution than before.

''Zippy the Pinhead'' (or ''Zippy [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma th']] Pinhead'') is a syndicated comic strip written by Bill Griffith that started out in UndergroundComics before getting picked up by King Features. It might be the strangest comic strip ''ever'' published in newspapers, and that's saying a lot for a medium that gave birth to ''KrazyKat'', ''TheFarSide'' (and its various copycats), and more recently, ''{{Lio}}''. Its drawing style, realistic and intricate and yet otherworldly, would not have been out of place in the early days of NewspaperComics. The writing itself is a string of non sequiturs and dreamlike scenarios, with no real punchlines in the traditional sense.

''Zippy the Pinhead'' (or ''Zippy [[PunctuationShaker th']] Pinhead'') is a syndicated comic strip written by Bill Griffith that started out in UndergroundComics before getting picked up by King Features. It might be the strangest comic strip ''ever'' published in newspapers, and that's saying a lot for a medium that gave birth to ''KrazyKat'', ''TheFarSide'' (and its various copycats), and more recently, ''{{Lio}}''. Its drawing style, realistic and intricate and yet otherworldly, would not have been out of place in the early days of NewspaperComics. The writing itself is a string of non sequiturs and dreamlike scenarios, with no real punchlines in the traditional sense.