Today’s (Boxing Day) Zippy cartoon takes us to commercial strips in Nevada and to a Woody Allen (comic) homage to German Expressionist film:
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(Remember that Zippy is a notably surrealistic cartoon.)
Archive for the ‘Surrealism’ Category
Wigs and smog in Nevada
December 26, 2020Plastic Fantastic Pinhead
March 8, 2016Today’s Zippy, taking us back into the world of Doggie Diner heads and Muffler Men, roadside fiberglass icons that Zippy engages in conversation with every so often. Today they give him astonishing news about his origins:
Comic conventions
February 26, 2015Two cartoons today touching on conventions of the comics: A Calvin and Hobbes on conventional characters in the comics and a Zippy on the conventions of surrealistic cartooning:
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The portal
December 14, 2014(Not much linguistic in this, but it tickled my fancy.)
Today’s Zippy:
An exercise in Zippyesque surrealism.
Note that the two panels have “the same” characters in them, doing the same things, but with everyone transformed by the portal in the second panel: the woman with a wrap on her arm becomes a Pinhead with a folded muu-muu on her arm, and so on.
And there’s no going back.