Speaking about Zippy
LETTERS FROM READERS
Email your comments: zipglitz@mindspring.com
(snail mail: Pinhead Productions / PO Box 88 / Hadlyme CT 06439)
This new "reader feedback" page is a place where visitors can see what Zippy's many fans (and detractors) are saying about their favorite pinhead. Send all emotional outpourings to the e-address above. Most letters will be answered. Some will be posted here.
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From:
Tina Graham <tgraham@attbi.com>
Subject:
Today's cartoon
To:
zipglitz@mindspring.com
To no surprise, your narrow minded, hateful viewpoints littered the
comic section of my newspaper once again. More and more, it is obvious
to me and many others, who the real intolerant, hateful fanatics are.
It's comics like yours,"Doonesbury", and "The Boondocks". You represent
the ugly, and mean side of politics. I know you have a right to spew
your hate, but I find your mudslinging immature and distasteful.
A sickened comics reader
From:
"darrel olsen" <olsend@mindspring.com>
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Subject:
touched by the hand of GOD
To:
<zipglitz@mindspring.com>
Bill,
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I was once lost but now I'm found! I emailed you some time ago and
cast aspersions and disparaging remarks towards your efforts to enlighten mankind.
How wrong I was.
I recently digested the Zippy annuals for 2001 and 2002 and I finally get it! Free at last, oh Lord I'm free
at last! You are my exclusive "faith based sevice provider". I will devote my life to love and krispy kremes
and tobascco sauce.
I've lined all my boxer-shorts with cool-whip and easy cheese and have quit my job so that i can devote my
entire life to lobbying the Bush administration for the millions of dollars your orginization so rightly deserves.
Please don't die before i do as i can't imagine a world without you or your marvelous wisdom.
Sincerely,
Darrel
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Subject:
Correct me in my thinking
Date:
Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:18:16 -0600
From:
"Greg Fahey" <askewton@mcleodusa.net>
To:
<zipglitz@mindspring.com>
Greetings,
In my effort to tell others about Zippy, I describe him as a soul who honors whatever anyone else
has decided is important. I love Zippy since he represents the child in all of us. You, Nose Boy, have
created a telemarketers dream.
My latest creation is the story of how my brief intimate affair did not last. Taking heart, I decided that a
platonic relationship was the answer. Such did not contain the interest of the former. Giving up on that,
I decided to try a metaphysical dalliance but the lady and I broke up before we met.
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Subject:
inquiry
Date:
Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:58:05 -0600
From:
webmaster@fakeinfo.com (the new dude)
To:
availability@zippythepinhead.com
Monday, February 24, 2003 at 14:58:04
email: webmaster@fakeinfo.com
subject: inquiry
Message: They fired that whipcracker, he was. You can bust AdBusters in a special strip.
They've been illegally referencing subrosa devices such as propaganda spewage phones and
the Republican Birth Control Device you noted previously. Be forewarned, they try to
push this stuff on foreigners.
Crumm and Spain should be advised. Soviets are in Retrograd. Someone wants to declare
World Peace on March 6. Tell Hussein, please, SEAN MCMURPHY.
Indeed,
Greg Fahey
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Date:
Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0600
From:
ryana@artifexbid.com (MC DoubleR A)
To:
webmaster@zippythepinhead.com
email: ryana@artifexbid.com
subject: General Inquiry
Dear Mr Griffith, What is with all the Road side attraction stuff in your comics? Talking lobster
VW and wizzard buildings? Are you that starved for material? Why cant you go back to your own
characters, thats what i wanna see. Everytime Zippy starts talking to a damn hamburger sign Mr. Toad
should come out and kick the crap out of him.
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Subject:
Zippy
Date:
Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:33:08 -0800
From:
lloyd dykk <ldykk@telus.net>
To:
<zipglitz@mindspring.com>
Dear Mr. Griffith:
I've read you for years and with great delight. It's Sunday morning and I
started the day with the Zippy annual No. 1. It was so peaceful. Was it the
"memes" or the sight of that steam plume emanating from the coffee mugs? --
so gracefully ephemeral yet so strangely solid.
I once wrote an appreciation of Zippy for the Vancouver Sun, where I work.
This was in advance of our running the strip. Sadly, to our shame, it didn't
run long.
Anyway, I'm a friend for life, as is my pal Leanne Campbell, who still
treasures the answer you sent in response to her fan letter. Thank you for
everything.
Lloyd Dykk
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Subject:
Zippy and the library?
Date:
Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:45:42 -0600
From:
"Herrick, Brendan A" <Brendan.Herrick@landsend.com>
To:
<zipglitz@mindspring.com>
Hi, Bill.
Just thought I'd drop a line to say "nice website". Believe it or not, I first was introduced to the
Zipster when I was at my local library in 1982. I was about 12 and they were giving away 'free books'. So,
being cheap, I checked them out and found a small, well-worn, pocket size comic featuring Zippy eating a
tub of Polysorbate-80 - I was hooked!. I didn't really 'get' the comic but I thought it was cool plus I was
hoping to glance some gratuitous pix that I had seen in Crumb comix. Even though I didn't, I kept the
comic and read it periodically throughout the years. Ironically, I was re-introduced to Zippy during the
Comic businesses' 'free comic day' last year where I picked up an odd-sized "15 minutes ahead of his time"
- again for free. After reading that and enjoying it so thoroughly, I went out and bought (finally got me!)
your first annual and have continued my own personal Zippy surrealism tour. I saw somewhere that
Zippy's been going since 1970 (great year- especially in March) and wanted to congratulate and thank you
for keeping Zip around. Your draftsman ship is very stylish and looks great in B\W. Way to go,
Mr.Griffith! Maybe we'll see you at the Chicago Comic con (or mid-west location) sometime. I'll keep
checking your site periodically for autographed books specials. Take care!
Brendan Herrick
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Subject:
Date:
Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:39:35 -0500
From:
"Charlene Akers" <seeakers@worldnet.att.net>
To:
<zipglitz@mindspring.com>
oh man, some days I sit in my apartment and start laughing and can't stop. I'm sure my
neighbors think I'm nuts. Today is one of those days. Zippy is such a pinhead. Thank you.
Charlene Akers (Baste Until Brown)
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Subject:
Thanks!
Date:
Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:52:40 -0400
From:
Corey Flintoff <CFlintoff@npr.org>
To:
"'zipglitz@mindspring.com'" <zipglitz@mindspring.com>
Dear Bill, Thanks for elevating me to Nirvana again! I am highly honored
to appear, even as a disseminator of creepy catchphrases, from the mouth of
the Zipster himself. So far I've gotten about 30 e-mails from friends and
family -- even my mother-in-law, who has finally come to think I amount to
something. All this came at the end of a difficult week, so I greatly
appreciate it. My head is swelling to an attractive point. Is it possible
to buy the original? Or has Jay Leno already bid on it? Best, Corey
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Subject:
a fan
Date:
Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:35:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:
steve lerda <bmocbmocbmoc@yahoo.com>
To:
zipglitz@mindspring.com
you know, for years following the demise of "The Far
Side" and "Calvin and Hobbes," i was lost in something
of a not-so-funny-pages stupor. somehow, though, i
managed in my blindness to stumble upon the Zippy
acorn. that's a real screwball strip you've got
there, and i'm a daily reader now. thanks for the
laughs, and keep it up -- steve.
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Subject:
Have been a fan for many, many years...
Date:
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:07:59 -0400
From:
"Robert Johns" <robertjohns7@earthlink.net>
To:
<zipglitz@mindspring.com>
...beginning back in the raunchy years before you became gentrified. I'm also glad to say my 16 year old son
"gets" you.
But sometimes, as in today's cartoon, you add alarmingly narrow minded and gratuitous stuff that dilutes your
wit. It makes me wonder how far along the road of mental petrification you've progressed. And how deep have
you allowed the ruts to become?
RJohns
Avon, CT
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Subject:
Thanks!
Date:
Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:56:42 -0400
From:
goldk@georgetown.edu
To:
zipglitz@mindspring.com
Bill-
Thanks for posting all the not-to-be Zippy animation material. It was
REALLY interesting.
You might have stopped dreaming about it -- but I suspect some of us
Zippy-philes haven't.
Best.
Karen Gold
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Subject:
General Inquiry
Date:
Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:06:34 -0500
From:
cwillms@tcfbank.com (Craig)
To:
webmaster@zippythepinhead.com
email: cwillms@tcfbank.com
subject: General Inquiry
Mr. Griffith, having been a Zippy fan and a Republican for years I grow weary of the
constant bashing. Doonesbury already fills the need for endless Republican bashing. It's your
work and Zippy is your creation and you can do as you please, but for heaven's sake enough
already. Good Day, Craig W.
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Subject:
RE: General Inquiry
Date:
Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:39:45 -0500
From:
"Craig Willms" <cwillms@tcfbank.com>
To:
"Bill Griffith" <zipglitz@mindspring.com>
How nice of you to respond. I really do love Zippy, as I'm sure millions
do, while I'm not really offended, say in the way Doonesbury does, but
it seems really obsessive lately. We Republicans do tend to be rather
stereotypical, I must admit. I hope you have a little fun with the rabid
leftists someday soon. However, they are so darn serious and sort of
boring, maybe there's not a lot of material for you... Thanks, again for
the response - I knew you were an all right guy!
Regards,
Craig W.
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Subject:
General Inquiry
Date:
Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:14:19 -0500
From:
jeannez49@cs.com (Jeanne Zang)
To:
webmaster@zippythepinhead.com
email: jeannez49@cs.com
subject: General Inquiry
Hi, Bill -
I'm glad to see you've recently gotten political - I love it! (Or maybe you've been
political all along and it's gone over my head. I'm not the brightest bulb in the chandelier
when it comes to subtleties. I confess to often not understanding Zippy, but I faithfully
read him everyday anyway.)
Jeanne
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