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Zippy the Pinhead, the Glossary

Zippy the Pinhead is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Zippy, an American comic strip created by Bill Griffith.^[1]

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1971 comics debuts
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Alternative newspaper

An alternative newspaper is a type of newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of stylized reporting, opinionated reviews and columns, investigations into edgy topics and magazine-style feature stories highlighting local people and culture.

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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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Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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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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Bill Griffith

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

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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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Clown

A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms.

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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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Consumerism

Consumerism is a social and economic order in which the aspirations of many individuals include the acquisition of goods and services beyond those necessary for survival or traditional displays of status.

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Croatia

Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium.

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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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Diane Noomin

Diane Robin Noomin (Rosenblatt, May 13, 1947 – September 1, 2022) was an American comics artist associated with the underground comics movement.

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Dilbert

Dilbert is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Scott Adams, first published on April 16, 1989. Zippy the Pinhead and Dilbert are American comic strips, gag-a-day comics and satirical comics.

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Dilbert (character)

Dilbert is a fictional character and the main character and protagonist of the comic strip of the same name, created by Scott Adams. Zippy the Pinhead and Dilbert (character) are Male characters in comics.

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Ding Dong

A Ding Dong is a chocolate cake produced and distributed in the United States by Hostess Brands and in Canada from Vachon Inc. under the name King Dons; in some U.S. markets, it was previously known as Big Wheels.

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Doggie Diner

Doggie Diner was a small fast food restaurant chain serving hot dogs and hamburgers in San Francisco and Oakland, California that operated from 1948 to 1986, owned by Al Ross.

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Don Markstein's Toonopedia

Don Markstein's Toonopedia (subtitled A Vast Repository of Toonological Knowledge) is an online encyclopedia of print cartoons, comic strips and animation, initiated February 13, 2001.

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E. P. Dutton

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Eben Moglen

Eben Moglen (born July 13, 1959) is an American legal scholar who is professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center.

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Emacs

Emacs, originally named EMACS (an acronym for "Editor Macros"), is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility.

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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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Film Roman

Film Roman, LLC, is an American animation studio currently based in Woodland Hills, California and formerly in Burbank.

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Fortune (Unix)

fortune is a program that displays a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations.

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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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Free association (psychology)

Free association is the expression (as by speaking or writing) of the content of consciousness without censorship as an aid in gaining access to unconscious processes.

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Glockenspiel

The glockenspiel (or,: bells and: play) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout.

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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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John Tesh

John Frank Tesh Jr. (born July 9, 1952) is an American musician and radio and television presenter.

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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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Last Gasp (publisher)

Last Gasp is a San Francisco–based book publisher with a lowbrow art and counterculture focus. Zippy the Pinhead and Last Gasp (publisher) are underground comix.

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist.

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List of Dilbert characters

This is a list of characters that have appeared in Scott Adams' Dilbert comic strip.

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Literary nonsense

Literary nonsense (or nonsense literature) is a broad categorization of literature that balances elements that make sense with some that do not, with the effect of subverting language conventions or logical reasoning.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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Maxfield Parrish

Maxfield Parrish (July 25, 1870 – March 30, 1966) was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century.

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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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Mile

The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards.

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Muffler man

Muffler men are large moulded fiberglass sculptures that are placed as advertising icons, roadside attractions, or for decorative purposes, predominantly in the United States.

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Mule (smuggling)

A mule or courier is someone who personally smuggles contraband across a border (as opposed to sending by mail, etc.) for a smuggling organization.

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Muumuu

The muumuu or muumuu is a loose dress of Hawaiian origin.

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Non sequitur (literary device)

A non sequitur (" does not follow") is a conversational literary device, often used for comedic purposes.

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Nuclear fuel

Nuclear fuel is material used in nuclear power stations to produce heat to power turbines.

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Nuclear meltdown

A nuclear meltdown (core meltdown, core melt accident, meltdown or partial core melt) is a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating.

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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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Polysorbate 80

Polysorbate 80 is a nonionic surfactant and emulsifier often used in pharmaceuticals, foods, and cosmetics.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.

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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. Zippy the Pinhead and Print Mint are underground comix.

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Protagonist

A protagonist is the main character of a story.

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Ramones

The Ramones were an American punk rock band formed in the New York City neighborhood Forest Hills, Queens in 1974.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Richard Stallman

Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer.

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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. Zippy the Pinhead and Rip Off Press are underground comix.

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Robert Crumb

Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist who often signs his work R. Crumb.

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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.

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Salsa (food)

Salsa encompasses a variety of sauces used as condiments for tacos and other Mexican and Mexican-American foods, and as dips for tortilla chips.

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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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San Francisco Examiner

The San Francisco Examiner is a newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, and has been published since 1863.

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San Francisco Zoo

The San Francisco Zoo is a zoo located in the southwestern corner of San Francisco, California, between Lake Merced and the Pacific Ocean along the Great Highway.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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References

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

Also known as Dingburg, Zippy (comic strip), Zippy the Pinhead (comic strip).

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See also

1971 comics debuts

People with microcephaly

Surreal comedy comics

References