Happy Friday Find-Day, Everyone!
For
anyone into the underground comics movement, I found this:
The
central character, Zippy, is based on Schlitzie from the film “Freaks.” The
strip was apparently somewhat popular, having been syndicated in over 200
newspapers—though I don’t remember seeing it anywhere—which might have something
to do with the fact that I live in Indiana and an absurdist comic about a
fetishized pinhead with left-of-center beliefs doesn’t exactly match up with
the predominantly red-state ethos of the Corn-and-Meth-Lab State.
Either
way: it’s a good comic, as tasteless as it may or may not be—and, amongst its
fans, is the one and only Mr. Underground Comics-man himself, R. Crumb!
Also,
fun fact: according to Bartlett’s, the phrase: “Are we having fun yet?” is
attributed to the strip’s creator, Bill Griffith, who employed it as Zippy’s
tagline.
Nickelback
also employed it in that one song (no way in hell am I linking to that), which begs the question: Was this a conscious reference on Nickelback's part? And, if so, does that completely ruin everyone's assertion that Nickelback is less cool than Hitler, in turn, bringing them up one relative cool-point above--or maybe just on par (not sure how cool-point math works)--with the Chaplin-mustached one?
Dear God....Never mind.
And
if that’s not enough to get your non-sequiter/absurdist comics-loving ass
excited, I also found this:
It’s
a comic done by David Lynch, Mr. I-Don’t-Have-To-Explain-My-People-In-Bunny-Costumes-Films himself!
The
comic ran for, I think, 9 years and was published in an L.A. paper, which is
remarkable considering how not-Garfield it is.
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