Arcade
Arcade: The Comics Revue, edited by Art Spiegelman and Bill Griffith between 1975 and 1976, the bridge between the underground and what came next.
Part of Underground Comics
17 moments in this segment.
- - Bill Griffith TV Interview, 2003. Bill Griffith is filmed at work in his Connecticut studio in November 2003, with the Zippy theme song played over the piece.
- - Bill Griffith interview, 2002. Bill Griffith is filmed at his Connecticut drawing table talking about Zippy the Pinhead, in a short profile originally made for a Hartford television station.
- - Zippy the Pinhead cartoonist Bill Griffith on good Toad days! INTERVIEW. Bill Griffith discusses Zippy the Pinhead, the character's beginnings in 1970s underground comix as a secondary player, and how the strip later ran daily in syndicated newspapers. The interview traces the route from the undergrounds to the syndicate page.
- - Interview with Bill Griffith - The Comics Alternative. Derek Royal talks with Bill Griffith about his memoir Invisible Ink and about the long run of his strip Zippy the Pinhead, tracing Griffith's path from underground work onward.
- - PENNY ARCADE - and how to avoid writing talking head comics. A critical breakdown of Penny Arcade as a gaming webcomic, using its strips as a worked example of the talking-head layout problem and what alternatives a cartoonist has. The argument covers the strip's scale, from merchandise through conventions to its charity arm.
- - Bill Griffith: Zippy and Other Pinheads. Bill Griffith introduces Nobody's Fool, his book on Schlitzie, the sideshow performer whose appearance in the 1932 film Freaks fed the creation of Zippy the Pinhead.
- - Virtual Memories #324 - Bill Griffith. Bill Griffith discusses Nobody's Fool, his graphic biography of the sideshow performer Schlitzie, the trouble of separating fact from legend in that life, and how seeing Tod Browning's Freaks in 1963 led him to Zippy the Pinhead. The conversation starts several minutes in.
- - 40 Unforgettable PRO TIPS of Comic Makers!! How to Draw Comics The Bill Griffith Way!. Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg read through Bill Griffith's comics and pull out the drawing and page construction decisions they find worth copying, working panel by panel through his approach to lettering, texture and layout.
- - Arcade: The Comics Revue #3 Fall, 1975. A page-by-page flip through the third issue of Arcade: The Comics Revue from Fall 1975, the quarterly edited by Art Spiegelman and Bill Griffith for Print Mint, showing the contributor strips and the Zippy the Pinhead material inside.
- - Bill Griffith on Meeting Marcel Duchamp as a student at Pratt. Bill Griffith recalls encountering Marcel Duchamp while studying art at Pratt in 1963, and what the meeting meant to him as a student.
- - Bill Griffith, Oct 10, 2023. Bill Griffith argues for Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy as a formal model and presents Three Rocks, the book he made about it, at the New York comics symposium.
- - Bill Griffith Shoot Interview- 2023 Cartoonist of the Year! ZIPPY Daily strip, underground legend!. Bill Griffith answers a long run of questions from Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg about the daily Zippy the Pinhead strip, his underground years and his standing as cartoonist of the year.
- - Finding Humanity At The Sideshow. Zippy the Pinhead was drawn from Schlitzie, a sideshow performer who appeared in Tod Browning's 1932 film Freaks, a film early audiences reacted against.
- - Arcade The Comics Revue #1: the Cadillac of underground comics! Crumb, Spiegelman, Griffith, Moscoso. Arcade began in 1975 as a quarterly edited by Art Spiegelman and Bill Griffith to keep underground cartoonists in print after the head-shop market collapsed, and the first issue carries Crumb, Griffith, Spiegelman and Victor Moscoso.
- - Arcade The Comics Revue #2: What a lineup! Crumb, Shelton, Deitch, Osborne, Spain, Kinney, McMillan!. The second issue of Arcade carries Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Kim Deitch, Michael McMillan, Spain Rodriguez and Jay Kinney, the quarterly still gathering the underground's regulars in 1975.
- - Arcade The Comics Revue #5: Crumb, M.K. Brown, Williams, Wilson, Spiegelman, Hayes, Griffith, Green!. The fifth issue of Arcade runs Crumb, M.K. Brown, Robert Williams, S. Clay Wilson, Spiegelman, Rory Hayes, Griffith and Justin Green, close to the full roster the quarterly was built to hold.
- - The Unfiltered 70s | Cosmopolitan Magazine September 1978 Flip Through. A silent page-by-page pass through the September 1978 issue of Cosmopolitan, with chapter stops at features on Carrie Fisher and Rod Stewart, a disco piece, an apartment spread, and the fashion pages and print advertising of the period.