Today’s Zippy toon, at Zip’s diner in Dayville CT, with Zippy spreading his love for taco sauce:
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At least the eighth appearance of Zip’s in Zippy.
Archive for the ‘Diners’ Category
The lure of Zip’s
January 12, 2020At the onomatomania dinette
November 27, 2019Today’s Zippy is set in the Ghent neighborhood of Norfolk VA of a few years back, in a Do-Nut Dinette — whose name throws Zippy into a fit of onomatomania (aka repetitive phrase disorder) compounded with Spooner’s affliction (compulsive exchange of word elements in phrases):
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(Separately, there’s the use of dinette to refer to a diner, as a type of restaurant.)
News at the Miss Albany
October 29, 2019Yesterday’s Zippy takes us to a historic diner in Albany NY and its notifications boards:
(#1) Note the parochial character of the messages: bulletins about the diner’s offerings
The real diner’s interior:
(#2) From the diner’s last day of service, posted 2/17/12 on the All Over Albany site
The outrage of a new menu
September 18, 2019Today’s Zippy takes us to the banks of the Connecticut River in Chicopee MA, to a historic diner, and to the bizarre foods that Zippy fancies:
(#1) If you’re Zippy, everything goes better with a dollop of Valvoline on it — and, maybe, some canned beets:
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Zippy and Gladys are in Al’s Diner, a well-known feature of Chicopee, a northern industrial city that took advantage of the falls on the Connecticut to drive mills — which then entangled the place in the slave economy of the early 18th century.
Will the real Zippy please stand up?
April 20, 2019Yesterday’s Zippy takes us to Littleton (NH, not the more famous CO — or, for that matter, IL, IA, KY, ME, MA, NC, or WV), where our Pinhead falls into an identity crisis:
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Everybody, including the counterman, is Zippy, or at least a Zippy. And the strip begins with a stretch that is both two panels, each with a Zippy in it, and one full-diner-view panel, with two Zippys in it. We’re in the nightmare world of clones — who am I?
Then there’s the observation in the last panel: No one brings small problems into a diner. Certainly, an interpretation of what happened in the strip before this, though as that it’s crucially ambiguous. But maybe also a moral that we should take away from those events, a piece of advice about what we should or should not do.
Bite me, Count Bendix!
November 15, 2018Today’s Zippy, set in the Bendix Diner in Hasbrouck Heights NJ (in Bergen County, in the NJ suburbs of NYC, near Passaic), celebrates grilled or fried ham and cheese sandwiches:
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Mix and match
June 28, 2018Today’s Zippy, at the Main Street Diner in Plainville CT:
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takes us back to this 12/16/14 posting, “Telezippic communication”:
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The same artwork, slightly different coloring, entirely different text, but the same story line:
Return to the Amherst Diner in Winchester VA
June 23, 2018
Return to Austin TX
April 29, 2018… in today’s Zippy, which features the old Fran’s Hamburgers in Austin TX — it closed in 2013 — and its notable fiberglass mascot:
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In Zippy’s world, fiberglass figures are often given to intense self-reflection, especially about their place in the world.
