Bill Griffith

Legendary cartoonist Bill Griffith brings a personal touch to this illustrated history of his great-grandfather, William Henry Jackson--a pioneering photographer of the American West whose work led to Yellowstone becoming the first National Park and was a major influence on Ansel Adams In his new graphic biography, legendary cartoonist Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead, tells the story of his namesake and great-grandfather, William Henry Jackson, who was one of the first photographers of the American West. Jackson's photography spurred Americans to move westward, inspiring photographers such as Ansel Adams, and playing a role in the creation of our national parks, including Yellowstone. Using his unique approach to graphic novel biography, which Kirkus hails as setting a "standard" for the medium, Griffith explores every aspect of his great-grandfather's life and legacy, which he pulls from family letters, diaries, and anecdotes, primary sources, and the archives of the New Y

Nobody’s Fool follows the story of Schlitzie’s long career—from Coney Island and the Ringling Bros. Circus to small-town carnivals and big-city sideshows—which is one of l

This is the renowned cartoonist's first long-form graphic work — a 200-page memoir that poignantly recounts his mother’s secret life, which included an affair with a cartoonist and crime novelist in t

Collects a full two-and-a-half years of the cult comic strip, with “extras.”

In Zippy’s latest collection of daily and color strips (with additional pages!),the tour of “Dingburg” continues; we drop in on dozens of Dingburgers andobserve them in their natura

In our latest collection of the Zippy thePinhead daily comic strip, Zippy is visits his home town, Dingburg: the only city in the US inhabited entirely by pinheads (well, aside from Wa

A latest collection of Zippy the Pinhead daily comic strips features a storyline in which the main character's dialogue is usurped by balloons taken directly from such classic comics as "Beach Blanket

Collecting a year of America's last great comicstrip.Zippy the Pinhead is a pop culture icon. The surrealist-leaning character is one of the most recognizable figures on the newspaper pages, seen by

A collection of Zippy the Pinhead strips from the early '80s. An excellent introduction Bill Griffith's popular comic strip. From his first appearance in Tales of the Toad, Zippy has lived a true Amer

It’s three more full years of Ernie Bushmiller’s beloved comic strip, featuring over one thousand meticulously restored daily strips from its post-World-War II graphic high point — superbly crafted bu

Bill Griffith is best known as the creator of the Zippy daily comic strip, currently running in over 300 newspapers nationwide, but Zippy was conceived as an underground comix character before he beca

Hailed as a "masterpiece" (Nature) and as "the most important book in the sciences of language to have appeared in many years" (Steven Pinker), Ray Jackendoff's Foundations of Language was widely accl