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5	!!!'''[[SimilarlyNamedWorks You may be looking]] for ''ComicStrip/{{Zippy}}'', by Creator/BillGriffith.'''
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7	->'''Smithers:''' ''[reading ''Ziggy'' strip]'' So Ziggy goes to the repair shop ... there's a sign on the doorbell reading 'Out of Order'!
8	->'''Mr. Burns:''' Ah, Ziggy, will you ever win?
9	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
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11	''Ziggy'' is a comic strip originally drawn by Tom Wilson. It is a one-panel strip on dailies, and a sequential on Sundays. The strip is a LongRunner, having run in newspapers since 1971. The strip focuses on the eponymous character, a human of some sort who lives at home by himself with his cat, dog, parrot and fish.
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13	!!This comic provides examples of:
14	* AnimatedAdaptation: ''Ziggy's Gift,'' a Creator/RichardWilliams-directed Christmas special from 1982, which won an MediaNotes/EmmyAward.
15	%%* ButtMonkey: Ziggy.
16	* CirclingSaw: Someone did this to Ziggy once while he was reading [[DramaticIrony a book about things that only happen in the movies.]]
17	%%* CrapsackWorld: Quite often in the early strips.
18	%%* FreudianCouch
19	* FunnyAnimal: Ziggy's parrot talks to him regularly. It is also implied that the cat and dog can talk to him.
20	%%* GagNose: Ziggy.
21	* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Okay, he's a human (supposedly), that's still an animal. But ''why doesn't he wear pants?!'' Or have a crotch? In December 2009, ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' addressed this issue in an arc in which Rat leads others in protesting Ziggy's pantslessness. Stephen Pastis gave Tom Wilson a heads-up about the issue, and the same week Ziggy broke with tradition and started wearing pants.
22	%%* LongPants: One [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation possible answer]] to the above before Ziggy actually started wearing them.
23	%%* MerchandiseDriven: So much so in the 1980s.
24	* MinimalistCast: The only regulars are Ziggy and a few of his pets.
25	* TheMovie: ''Ziggy's Gift'', directed by Creator/RichardWilliams.
26	* NoFourthWall: In one strip, Ziggy addresses the reader, saying that if he or she thinks life is hard, he or she should try living in a 3×3½-inch panel.
27	* PaintingTheMedium: If the letter "I" is used, it's always in lower case.
28	* SadistShow: Everyone, including his own ''parrot'', is cruel or snarky to Ziggy.
29	* TotallyRadical: Most of the pop culture references are already ages old by the time Ziggy gets around to covering them. His computer is depicted as being a late-1970s modular type (much like an Apple [=IIe=]).
30	%%* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: A running gag.
31	* WalkingTechbane: Many 1990s and 2000s gags deal with Ziggy's incompetence with the computer.

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