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050 0 $aPN6728.Z52$bG69 1984
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100 1 $aGriffith, Bill,$d1944-
245 10 $aZippy :$bpointed behavior /$c[Bill Griffith].
260 $aSan Francisco, CA :$bLast Gasp,$cc1984.
300 $a[100] p. :$bchiefly ill. ;$c21 x 14 cm.
520 $aZippy made his first appearance in Real Pulp Comix #1 in March 1971. The strip began in The Berkeley Barb in 1976 and was syndicated nationally soon after, originally as a weekly strip. It has been a daily feature since 1985, distributed by King Features Syndicate. Zippy has a cult following, but some other readers remain confused, prompting the official Zippy website to feature a tutorial on understanding the strip. The original home of the strip was the San Francisco Examiner, where it was first published daily in 1985. It was picked up for worldwide daily syndication by King Features in 1986. The Sunday Zippy debuted in 1990. When the San Francisco Chronicle canceled Zippy briefly in 2002, the newspaper received thousands of letters of protest, including one from Robert Crumb, who called Zippy "by far the very best daily comic strip that exists in America". The Chronicle quickly restored the strip but dropped it again in 2004, leading to more protests as well as grateful letters from non-fans. The strip continues to be syndicated in many newspapers but often ranks at or near the bottom of reader polls. The strip is unique among syndicated multi-panel dailies for its characteristics of literary nonsense, including a near-absence of either straightforward gags or continuous narrative, and for its unusually intricate artwork, which is reminiscent of the style of Griffith's 1970s underground comics. The Zippy website allows readers to scroll through thousands of Zippy daily and Sunday strips. A "Strip Search" feature also allows search by title, date or key word(s).
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