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Zippy : Nation of Pinheads
Nation of Pinheads
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First published December 1, 1987
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Bill Griffith
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June 3, 2021
Zippy: Nation of Pinheads is a collection of Zippy strips from 1981 and 1982 starring Zippy the Pinhead.
I was aware of Zippy the Pinhead for years but never read any until I found this for 6 bucks.
Zippy is a microcephalic in a polka dotted muumuu that Bill Griffith uses to make sport of 1980s culture using observations and non-sequiturs. That's pretty much all I can say. It's a bizarre strip.
Bill Griffith is a talented draftsman. He uses a lot of cross hatching and black to give his strips depth. What I'm trying to say is the strip is surprisingly detailed and isn't a Garfield strip that takes an hour or two to knock out a day's page. Griffith's sense of humor shows through using Zippy as his mouthpiece, poking fun at pop culture in almost every strip.
I'm sure this strip wasn't meant to be read in a book like this and I'm equally sure it hit differently forty years ago when it was new. Four decades later, the references in almost every strip are dated. I think if you were born after 1990, most of the references will go right over your head. I'm pushing 44 and I had trouble with some of them.
Zippy: Nation of Pinheads is a fun collection of strips featuring everyone's favorite pinhead. I'm not sure I'll read another one, though. Three out of five stars.
I was aware of Zippy the Pinhead for years but never read any until I found this for 6 bucks.
Zippy is a microcephalic in a polka dotted muumuu that Bill Griffith uses to make sport of 1980s culture using observations and non-sequiturs. That's pretty much all I can say. It's a bizarre strip.
Bill Griffith is a talented draftsman. He uses a lot of cross hatching and black to give his strips depth. What I'm trying to say is the strip is surprisingly detailed and isn't a Garfield strip that takes an hour or two to knock out a day's page. Griffith's sense of humor shows through using Zippy as his mouthpiece, poking fun at pop culture in almost every strip.
I'm sure this strip wasn't meant to be read in a book like this and I'm equally sure it hit differently forty years ago when it was new. Four decades later, the references in almost every strip are dated. I think if you were born after 1990, most of the references will go right over your head. I'm pushing 44 and I had trouble with some of them.
Zippy: Nation of Pinheads is a fun collection of strips featuring everyone's favorite pinhead. I'm not sure I'll read another one, though. Three out of five stars.
June 4, 2020
Eh. Zippy is kind of a one-note type deal. This collection is just one gag strip after another where the joke is non-sequiturs about stuff that was topical in 1981. It's amusing enough at first but it gets stale fast. Zippy feels like the kind of thing that works better read as a daily comic and not one after another in this kind of collection.
July 23, 2023
Sometimes they’re hilarious, sometimes they’re weirdly funny, and sometimes they’re just weird. But they're always entertaining. The 80s would have been a lot less fun without Bill Griffith.
May 14, 2025
The more you read, the more you need...
February 28, 2008
he was a pinhead, happier than you or me!
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