Zippy Annual SC (2000-2003 Fantagraphics) comic books

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Seen by tens of millions of readers every day, Bill Griffith's Zippy is a pop-culture icon. The Zippy Annual #1 collects a huge selection of Griffith's strips from 1998 and 1999 to guide us all into the 21st Century. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $19.95.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Bill Griffith's Zippy the Pinhead is a pop culture icon. Born in underground comix, the surrealist character is now one of the most recognizable characters on the newspaper pages, and is currently in production as an animated series to debut on the Showtime Network in 2002. Syndicated since 1986 by King Features, ZIPPY is read in over 200 newspapers seven days a week. Zippy's trademark non-sequitur, "Are we having fun yet?" has become so often-repeated that it is now in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. His likeness was graphittied on the former Berlin Wall, while Dan Akroyd is rumored to have created his Saturday Night Live characters, the Coneheads, after seeing Zippy for the first time. With Zippy Annual 2001 (a.k.a. "Z2K1"), all of Griffith's hilarious strips from 2000 and 2001 are collected into one place to guide us into the 21st Century. Millennium fever never seemed so, well, absurd. Frivolity is a stern taskmaster, and these brilliant black-and-white dailies and color Sundays (Griffith is a master of color and the printing process of the newspaper page) spotlight Griffith's inimitably existential and surreal sense of humor. "Bill Griffith's nationally syndicated Zippy continually stretches the intellectual bounds of the daily newspaper strip," writes the San Francisco Examiner. Plus, it's damn funny. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $19.95.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Bill Griffith's Zippy the Pinhead is a pop culture icon. Born in Underground Comix, the surrealist-leaning character is now one of the most recognizable figures on the newspaper pages, seen by tens of millions of people a day. Zippy Annual 2002 collects approximately a year's worth of strips, including full-color Sundays, from 2001 and 2002. This new volume includes several continuing storylines. One follows the high drama when Zippy's own favorite (fictional) comic strip, "Nimrod," is dropped from his daily newspaper, a thinly disguised parody of what happened when one of Zippy's papers tried (and failed) to drop Griffith's strip. Also, Zippy bumps into dead newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst, visits innumerable roadside attractions, and reacts to the events of Sept. 11th, 2001, in a series of emotionally-charged strips. Frivolity is a stern taskmaster, and these brilliantly designed strips have never reproduced better, making Zippy Annual 2002 a perfect showcase for Griffith's inimitably existential and surreal sense of humor, a must-have and perfect gift book for the millions who find Zippy a rare diamond in the rough of today's newspaper comic pages. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $19.95.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. Collects a year's worth of strips, including full-color Sundays, and spotlights Zippy's ongoing love affair with "Brand X" America. Travel to the "Neon Boneyard," Barnum's sideshow, Japan, Levittown, and the early 1900s. Also, politically incorrect strips featuring Zippy and Griffy. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $19.95.