Today’s Zippy pits Griffy against a familiar figure in the strip, a Muffler Man roadside fiberglass figure — in this case a lumberjack figure, selling tires rather than mufflers, but still part of an automotive theme: Not just selling tires, but presenting himself as hypermasculinely disdainful of analytic academics. MachoJackMan ends with a doubly dismissive … Continue reading Macho Muffler Man vs. the elite geek