Bill Griffith, Author . Fantagraphics $19.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-56097-618-9
For all of Griffith's jeers at the predictability of the funny pages, he hints a few times in this collection of strips from 2003 and 2004 that all he's ever wanted is to be as reliable as Nancy (which he parodies on the front cover) or The...
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Bill Griffith, Author . Fantagraphics $19.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-56097-698-1
Subscribers to newspapers that run Zippy the Pinhead should be grateful for just how wonderful their world is. Every day they can open up the funnies and among formulaic strips read about a freak (of the Tod Browning variety) in a muu-muu who helps...
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Bill Griffith, Author . Fantagraphics $18.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-56097-777-3
Zippy the Pinhead occupies a peculiar place in the American popscape,
\t\t a completely uncategorizable daily comic strip syndicated by King Features for
\t\t two decades in hundreds of papers. Zippy, a towering, bald-headed naïf
\t\t with...
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Bill Griffith. Fantagraphics, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-60699-641-6
It is easy to assume that in an era of cutbacks and shrinking space, most newspaper strips have been reduced to stale humor and uninteresting artwork. Bill Griffith proves otherwise. In this latest collection of the last two and a half years of...
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Bill Griffith. Fantagraphics, $29.99 hardcover (208p) ISBN 978-1-60699-895-3
This autobiographical story by the creator of Zippy the Pinhead will ring true to anyone who has ever watched their parents’ marital misery around the dinner table and wondered what was really going on. When Griffith’s father returns from war and...
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Bill Griffith. Abrams ComicArts, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4197-3501-1
Griffith (Invisible Ink) crafts an affectionate graphic biography of Schlitzie Surtees (possibly born Simon Metz, though this is uncertain), the real-life inspiration for Griffith’s long-running Zippy The Pinhead strip. Set in American carnivals,...
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Bill Griffith. Abrams ComicArts, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4197-4590-4
One master of comics arts pays tribute to another in this inventive graphic biography of Ernie Bushmiller (1905–1982), creator of the long-running strip Nancy. Griffith (Zippy the Pinhead) and his Zen surrealist nonchalance might seem an odd fit for
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Bill Griffith. Abrams ComicArts, $35 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4197-8414-9
Zippy the Pinhead creator Griffith (Three Rocks) presents a sprightly graphic biography of his great-grandfather, photographer William Henry Jackson, who died in 1942. Griffith, who was shocked to see one of his great-grandfather’s pictures in his...
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