Today’s Zippy, with a cartoon transformation: The three Dingburgers admiring Little Zippy (already cartoon characters) become more and more like cartoon characters, more cartoonish, more cartoony: bigger eyes, bigger ears, longer noses. The strip combines three themes: playful morphology in Zippy; ostentatious -ity; and the conventions of cartooning. Postings on these themes, on Language Log … Continue reading cartoonosity