Today’s Zippy, touring the center of historic Dingburg:
A great compendium of Zippy preoccupations: Hostess cupcakes and Little Debbie snack cakes, bowling, Poindexter barbats, topknots, beatniks, and much more. Somehow frozen in a past between 1885 and 1945, so that it’s historical, fantastical, and absurd, all at once.
And then there’s the conversational language: beep, honk, and urp.
March 15, 2018 at 12:22 pm |
A beatnik? In 1945? Just an error on Griffith’s part, or intentional?
March 15, 2018 at 12:58 pm |
A number of the Zippyan preoccupations are from after the 1895-1945 era: almost all of the food stuff, in particular, and of course pinheads themselves.
Everything happens at once?
March 15, 2018 at 1:15 pm
As I re-read the strip, it’s only the architecture that was frozen by 1945. I guess the culture was frozen at some later point, which could not be any earlier than the late 1950s, when people started saying “beatnik.” I don’t know when people started selling edible underwear. Everything else is datable to before 1945 (although I can’t read all of the signs).