Today’s Zippy, with more meta-cartooning:
(#1)
That’s not real, follicular stubble, just cartoon stubble.
A portrait of Zippy as he’s been for 43 years, with those dots:
(#2)
The Zippy character Claude Funston is also facially scruffy, much more so than Zippy:
(#3)
Claude’s scruff is cross-hatching rather than dots.
On facial scruff, in varying degrees, see postings here and here.
July 10, 2013 at 8:18 am |
Today’s paper was chock-full of comic strips about being comic strips, what with the above-mentioned “Zippy” plus Arlo and Janis (continuing a week-long theme) and Adam.
July 10, 2013 at 8:21 am |
Meta-strips seem to be all the rage these days. Zippy, of course, has been mining this territory for many years.
July 11, 2013 at 9:23 am |
[…] in some way that they are, in fact, in a cartoon, continues, as Robert Coren noted in a comment on my posting on yesterday’s Zippy. Here I’m going to reproduce the two strips from Robert’s […]