Speaking about Zippy

1/3/09
Just finished reading DINGBURG. Made me laugh out loud. Thanks for all your great work. I've been a loyal reader for three decades. A few years ago my beloved wife was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gherig's Disease). Needless to say, it has been a rough go. The last year or so only two writers can make me laugh out loud- you and Samuel Beckett. Beckett's novels always start me guffawing, and I can never resist torturing those around me by reading passages aloud! Likewise with Zippy! Zippy is like A. Jarry, with 'gravitas'!

Love and kisses from the Lehigh Valley,

Jay Bolick,
Emmaus PA.
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, January 24, 2009
Hi Bill. This is just a comment. I want to say "Thankyou" for doing more non-Dingburg strips! It was getting so that I've wanted to send you an email suggesting you change the name of the strip to "Dingburg". Sorry if this is irritating to hear, I just love the give-n-take of the characters more than the strangeness of Dingburg's populace. Cheers - John from Pittsburgh
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March 08, 2009 I notice a lot of people don't like Zippy because they don't get it. Oddly, I often don't get it either, but I can't live without it. Sometimes I just get a sense of meaning, rather than an explicit meaning. Is Zippy intended to paint this sense or am I imagining things? Btw, the "sense" I most often get is something like this:
The world is difficult and crazy. Zippy and his pals often turn it into something consumable -- something less creepy (although Zippy himself looks kind of creepy) -- by making it light and almost random. He makes hard things fun, products be silly (because they are -- or at least the ads are silly), and life generally entertaining. Well, whether I "get" Zippy or not, I'm an addicted reader. Thanks for this strip. -- karen corrick
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March 17, 2009 I can't believe I'm just now discovering Zippy. Started going through the archive strips and love them (and even understand most of them?). Could we be related?
- Griff
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Monday, April 06, 2009

Zippy is the only comic strip that feeds the mind. Do I need to read strip to get it'e teaching. OK. To the horror of eons of philosophers of a stripes who have written billions of words, this strip illustrates that some concepts are better demonstrated in a cartoon like this.
I cant figure out if you are a brilliant thinker or crazy.
To me, Griffy's nose resembles an erect penis with two balls on the sides.
To me, Zippy is either an idiot savant or a Zen guy. I think he is a Zen guy: he is never faking it or trying to be something, he just is intuitively and he doesn't hang on to stuff.
I used to be like Mr. Toad until I really figured out what a lonely, miserable existance it is. I bet Mr, Toad, when no one is looking, screams and cries in despair. That is, if he is that much in touch with his real feelings.
-Gerard Field
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October 16, 2009

Brilliant! I hadn't yet come across those wise words. I'll look forward to continuing to enjoy the invented symbols that you question, subvert, and make humorous. I lean more towards the Cult of the Ding Dong (or King Don, as we fellow former Long Islanders knew them), an item which has always struck me as being less of a graven image than, for example, the many sculpted images of a certain martyr on the cross. Of course, my worship comes with more calories.
Sincerely,
Charles D. Cohen
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October 16, 2009

It warms my heart---truly---to see somebody making-good with a good ol' pen. Your work is really quite wonderful.

Thanks, Mark Jordan Bir

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Oct. 22, 2009

Regarding your strip Zippy Finds God: there already was something unorganized to believe in -- the Unitarian-Universalist Church. I'm a UU, and I should know!

I really enjoy your strip!

-Arthur Hopkins
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11/04/09

Wow! I just had to say Wow! There is a psychic link between us. Reading today's strip, I had to laugh. I have that exact same Plasticville Frosty Bar adorning a shelf in my kitchen!!
Keep up the great work, you really make my day(s)!!

-Nathan
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1/5/10

I saw my first Fellini film and could not help but think that Fellini films are the underpinnings of pinhead logic...
That and RONCO infommercials.
-Curtis
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1/8/10

Griffy –

I hope you will be able to work into your Riboflavin-centered art a mention of OREC – the Organization of Riboflavin Exporting Countries.

It is a cartel consisting of nations that grow, package, distill, homogenize, Martinize, blister-pack or otherwise harvest riboflavin for world consumption.

The members of the cartel include Andorra, Brooklyn, the Comoros (known collectively as the ABC Powers or the Axis of Riboflavin), the Scilly Islands, and finally, Moldova, the home of the OREC headquarters and repository of the golden flemkee, the international unit of riboflavin based on the amount of pure energy found in a 1955 Powerhouse candy bar (not a Clark Bar, as some would have us believe).

The Dingburg factory, opened in 1947 as part of the annual Edward Everett Horton film festival, is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yoo-Hoo Industries (“Yoo-Hoo is Yogi Berra’s favorite drink) and, despite the fire, continues to be a National Somewhat Industrial Landmark due to its unique pinhead tower and mildly confused workforce.

(See also the inspiring 1942 movie, “Cavalcade of Food Additives,” featuring a tribute to riboflavin by Phil Spitalny and his All-Girl Orchestra, starring Evelyn and her Magic Violin.)

Yours truly,
Bad Burt of Reading, Mass.
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1/12/10

I liked your gargoyles (daily dose for January 10). I don't know where they came from, but check out the Washington National Cathedral gargoyles (http://www.nationalcathedral.org/visit/gargoyle.shtml, although other sites have more pictures of the 100+ gargoyles on the Cathedral). Among their featured ones is Darth Vader on the south tower and the "hippie" at the north nave.

-Larry Pryluck
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1/19/10

Hi Bill!
You am "whack-ed," my friend...you am whacked!
"DO PINHEADS GET THE BLUES?"(1/18/10) Indeed!
As e'er, frickin' HILARIOUS!
Warm Regards always!
Arn!
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