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Bill Griffith, the Glossary

William Henry Jackson Griffith (born January 20, 1944) is an American cartoonist who signs his work Bill Griffith and Griffy.^[1]

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Abrams Books

Abrams, formerly Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (HNA), is an American publisher of art and illustrated books, children's books, and stationery.

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Alter ego

An alter ego (Latin for "other I") means an alternate self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality.

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Alternative comics

Alternative comics or independent comics cover a range of American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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And/Or Press

And/Or Press was an independent small press publisher based in the San Francisco Bay Area that operated from 1974 to 1983.

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Arcade (comics magazine)

Arcade: The Comics Revue is a magazine-sized comics anthology created and edited by cartoonists Art Spiegelman and Bill Griffith to showcase underground comix.

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Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948), professionally known as Art Spiegelman, is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus. Bill Griffith and Art Spiegelman are American comic strip cartoonists, American comics writers and underground cartoonists.

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Associate degree

An associate degree or associate's degree is an undergraduate degree awarded after a course of post-secondary study lasting two to three years.

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Bachelor of Fine Arts

A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students for pursuing a professional education in the visual, fine, or performing arts.

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Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States.

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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, often simply called Bartlett's, is an American reference work that is the longest-lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations.

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Berkeley Barb

The Berkeley Barb was a weekly underground newspaper published in Berkeley, California, during the years 1965 to 1980.

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Bhob Stewart

Robert Marion Stewart, known as Bhob Stewart (November 12, 1937 – February 24, 2014) was an American writer, editor, cartoonist, filmmaker, and active fan who contributed to a variety of publications over a span of five decades. Bill Griffith and Bhob Stewart are American comics writers and underground cartoonists.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Cartoon Art Museum

The Cartoon Art Museum (CAM) is a California art museum that specializes in the art of comics and cartoons.

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Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images).

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Cartoonists' Co-op Press

Cartoonists Co-op Press was an underground comix publishing cooperative based in San Francisco that operated from 1973 to 1974.

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Catchphrase

A catchphrase (alternatively spelled catch phrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance.

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Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski,; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

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Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

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Comics anthology

A comics anthology collects works in the medium of comics, typically from multiple series, and compiles them into an anthology or magazine.

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Comics journalism

Comics journalism is a form of journalism that covers news or nonfiction events using the framework of comics, a combination of words and drawn images.

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Company & Sons

Company & Sons was an early underground comix publisher based in San Francisco, ran by John Bagley.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Current Biography

Current Biography is an American monthly magazine published by the H. W. Wilson Company of New York City, a publisher of reference books, that appears every month except December.

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Daily comic strip

A daily strip is a newspaper comic strip format, appearing on weekdays, Monday through Saturday, as contrasted with a Sunday strip, which typically only appears on Sundays.

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Diamond Heights, San Francisco

Diamond Heights is a neighborhood in central San Francisco, California, roughly bordered by Diamond Heights Boulevard and Noe Valley to the north and east and Glen Canyon Park to the south and west.

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Diane Noomin

Diane Robin Noomin (Rosenblatt, May 13, 1947 – September 1, 2022) was an American comics artist associated with the underground comics movement. Bill Griffith and Diane Noomin are Inkpot Award winners, Pratt Institute alumni and underground cartoonists.

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Drew Friedman (cartoonist)

Drew Friedman is an American cartoonist and illustrator who first gained renown for his humorous artwork and "stippling"-like style of caricature, employing thousands of pen-marks to simulate the look of a photograph. Bill Griffith and Drew Friedman (cartoonist) are Inkpot Award winners.

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E. P. Dutton

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East Village Other

The East Village Other (often abbreviated as EVO) was an American underground newspaper in New York City, issued biweekly during the 1960s.

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Ed Emshwiller

Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (February 16, 1925 – July 27, 1990) was an American visual artist notable for his science fiction illustrations and his pioneering experimental films.

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Ernie Bushmiller

Ernest Paul Bushmiller Jr. (August 23, 1905 – August 15, 1982) was an American cartoonist, best known for creating the comic strip character Nancy in 1933, now in print for 90 years. Bill Griffith and Ernie Bushmiller are American comic strip cartoonists.

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Fantagraphics

Fantagraphics (previously Fantagraphics Books) is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, manga, magazines, graphic novels, and (formerly) the erotic Eros Comix imprint.

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Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.

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Freaks (1932 film)

Freaks (also re-released as The Monster Story, Forbidden Love, and Nature's Mistakes) is a 1932 American pre-Code drama horror film produced and directed by Tod Browning, starring Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates and Harry Earles.

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Fred Schneider

Frederick William Schneider III (born July 1, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and frontman of the rock band the B-52's, of which he is a founding member.

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Future Science Fiction and Science Fiction Stories

Future Science Fiction and Science Fiction Stories were two American science fiction magazines that were published under various names between 1939 and 1943 and again from 1950 to 1960.

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Graphic design

Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives.

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Griffith Observatory

Griffith Observatory is an observatory in Los Angeles, California, on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park.

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Hadlyme North Historic District

The Hadlyme North Historic District is an historic district located in the southwest corner of the town of East Haddam, Connecticut (just north of the town line with Lyme).

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High Times

High Times is an American monthly magazine (and cannabis brand) that advocates the legalization of cannabis as well as other counterculture ideas.

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Inkpot Award

The Inkpot Award is an honor bestowed annually since 1974 by Comic-Con International.

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J. Hoberman

James Lewis Hoberman (born March 14, 1949) is an American film critic, journalist, author and academic.

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Janis Siegel

Janis Siegel (born July 23, 1952) is a multiple grammy-winning American jazz singer, best known as a member of the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer.

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Jay Kinney

Jay Kinney (born 1950) is an American author, editor, and former underground cartoonist. Bill Griffith and Jay Kinney are underground cartoonists.

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Jay Lynch

Jay Patrick Lynch (January 7, 1945 – March 5, 2017) was an American cartoonist who played a key role in the underground comix movement with his Bijou Funnies and other titles. Bill Griffith and Jay Lynch are American comic strip cartoonists, American comics writers and underground cartoonists.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jon Hendricks

John Carl Hendricks (September 16, 1921 – November 22, 2017), known professionally as Jon Hendricks, was an American jazz lyricist and singer.

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Justin Green (cartoonist)

Justin Considine Green (July 25, 1945 – April 23, 2022), Iconoclast Editions website. Bill Griffith and Justin Green (cartoonist) are American comics writers, Inkpot Award winners and underground cartoonists.

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Kim Deitch

Kim Deitch (born May 21, 1944 in Los Angeles, California)Donahue, Don and Susan Goodrick, editors. Bill Griffith and Kim Deitch are American comic strip cartoonists, American comics writers, Inkpot Award winners and underground cartoonists.

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King Features Syndicate

King Features Syndicate, Inc. is an American content distribution and animation studio, consumer product licensing and print syndication company owned by Hearst Communications that distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles, and games to nearly 5,000 newspapers worldwide.

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Kitchen Sink Press

Kitchen Sink Press was a comic book publishing company founded by Denis Kitchen in 1970.

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Last Gasp (publisher)

Last Gasp is a San Francisco–based book publisher with a lowbrow art and counterculture focus.

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Lawrence Lariar

Lawrence Lariar (December 25, 1908 – October 12, 1981) was an American novelist, cartoonist and cartoon editor, known for his Best Cartoons of the Year series of cartoon collections.

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Letterer

A letterer is a member of a team of comic book creators responsible for drawing the comic book's text.

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Levittown, New York

Levittown is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York.

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Long Island

Long Island is a populous island east of Manhattan in southeastern New York state, constituting a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area.

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Michele Wrightson

Michele Wrightson, also known as Michele Brand, was an American artist who worked in the comic book industry. Bill Griffith and Michele Wrightson are underground cartoonists.

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Microcephaly

Microcephaly (from Neo-Latin microcephalia, from Ancient Greek μικρός mikrós "small" and κεφαλή kephalé "head") is a medical condition involving a smaller-than-normal head.

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Nancy (comic strip)

Nancy is an American comic strip, originally written and drawn by Ernie Bushmiller and distributed by United Feature Syndicate and Andrews McMeel Syndication.

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National Cartoonists Society

The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States.

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National Lampoon (magazine)

National Lampoon was an American humor magazine that ran from 1970 to 1998.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Norman Saunders

Norman Blaine Saunders (January 1, 1907 – March 7, 1989) was a prolific 20th-century American commercial artist.

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P. T. Barnum

Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus with James Anthony Bailey.

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Paul Krassner

Paul Krassner (April 9, 1932 – July 21, 2019) was an American writer and satirist.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Phoebe Snow

Phoebe Snow (born Phoebe Ann Laub; July 17, 1950 – April 26, 2011) was an American roots music singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for her hit 1974 and 1975 songs "Poetry Man" and "Harpo's Blues", and her credited guest vocals backing Paul Simon on "Gone at Last".

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Physical abuse

Physical abuse is any intentional act causing injury or trauma to another person or animal by way of bodily contact.

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Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York.

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Print Mint

The Print Mint, Inc. was a major publisher and distributor of underground comix based in the San Francisco Bay Area during the genre's late 1960s-early 1970s heyday.

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Psychological abuse

Psychological abuse, often known as emotional abuse or psychological violence, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another person to a behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder amongst other psychological problems.

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Raw (comics magazine)

Raw was a comics anthology edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly and published in the United States by Mouly from 1980 to 1991.

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Rip Off Comix

Rip Off Comix was an underground comix anthology published between 1977 and 1991 by Rip Off Press.

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Rip Off Press

Rip Off Press Inc. is a comic book mail order retailer and distributor, better known as the former publisher of adult-themed series like The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Rip Off Comix, as well as many other seminal publications from the underground comix era.

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Robert Crumb

Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist who often signs his work R. Crumb. Bill Griffith and Robert Crumb are Inkpot Award winners and underground cartoonists.

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Roger Brand

Roger Brand (January 5, 1943 – November 23, 1985) was an American cartoonist who created stories for both mainstream and underground comic books. Bill Griffith and Roger Brand are artists from San Francisco and underground cartoonists.

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Romance comics

Romance comics are a genre of comic books that were most popular during the Golden Age of Comics.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Schlitzie

Schlitzie (alternatively spelled Schlitze or Shlitze; September 10, 1901 – September 24, 1971), possibly born Simon Metz and legally Schlitze Surtees, was an American sideshow performer.

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School of Visual Arts

The School of Visual Arts New York City (SVA NYC) is a private for-profit art school in New York City.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Screw (magazine)

Screw is a pornographic online magazine published in the United States aimed at heterosexual men; it was originally published as a weekly tabloid newspaper.

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Self-publishing

Self-publishing is the publication of media by its author at their own cost, without the involvement of a publisher.

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Spain Rodriguez

Manuel Rodriguez (March 2, 1940 – November 28, 2012), better known as Spain or Spain Rodriguez, was an American underground cartoonist who created the character Trashman. Bill Griffith and Spain Rodriguez are artists from San Francisco and underground cartoonists.

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Surreal humour

Surreal humour (also called surreal comedy, absurdist humour, or absurdist comedy) is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, thus producing events and behaviors that are obviously illogical.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The B-52s

The B-52s, originally presented as the B-52's (with an apostrophe; used until 2008), are an American new wave band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1976.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Comics Journal

The Comics Journal, often abbreviated TCJ, is an American magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books, comic strips and graphic novels.

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The Manhattan Transfer

The Manhattan Transfer is an American vocal group founded in 1969 in New York City, performing music genres like A cappella, Brazilian jazz, swing, vocalese, rhythm and blues, pop, and standards.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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Toad

Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands.

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Tod Browning

Tod Browning (born Charles Albert Browning Jr.; July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962) was an American film director, film actor, screenwriter, vaudeville performer, and carnival sideshow and circus entertainer.

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Tom Sutton

Thomas F. Sutton (April 15, 1937 – May 1, 2002) at the Social Security Death Index. Bill Griffith and Tom Sutton are American comic strip cartoonists.

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Topps

The Topps Company, Inc. is an American company that manufactures trading cards and other collectibles.

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Trading card

A trading card (or collectible card) is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or thing (fictional or real) and a short description of the picture, along with other text (attacks, statistics, or trivia).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Griffith

Also known as Griffith, Bill, Griffy, Mr. the Toad.

, Justin Green (cartoonist), Kim Deitch, King Features Syndicate, Kitchen Sink Press, Last Gasp (publisher), Lawrence Lariar, Letterer, Levittown, New York, Long Island, Michele Wrightson, Microcephaly, Nancy (comic strip), National Cartoonists Society, National Lampoon (magazine), New York (state), New York City, Norman Saunders, P. T. Barnum, Paul Krassner, Penguin Books, Phoebe Snow, Physical abuse, Pratt Institute, Print Mint, Psychological abuse, Raw (comics magazine), Rip Off Comix, Rip Off Press, Robert Crumb, Roger Brand, Romance comics, San Francisco, Schlitzie, School of Visual Arts, Science fiction, Screw (magazine), Self-publishing, Spain Rodriguez, Surreal humour, The Atlantic, The B-52s, The Boston Globe, The Comics Journal, The Manhattan Transfer, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Toad, Tod Browning, Tom Sutton, Topps, Trading card, Underground comix, Underground press, University of Michigan, Wacky Packages, William Henry Jackson, William S. Burroughs, Willy Murphy, X rating, Young Lust (comics), Zip the Pinhead, Zippy the Pinhead.

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