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Fictional character in an American comic strip

This article is about the cartoon character. For the freak show performer, see Zip the Pinhead.

Comics character

Zippy the Pinhead is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Zippy, an American comic strip created by Bill Griffith.

Zippy's most famous quotation, "Are we having fun yet?", appears in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and became a catchphrase. He almost always wears a yellow muumuu/clown suit^[1] with large red polka dots, and puffy, white clown shoes.^[2] (Other forms of attire may be seen when appropriate to the context, e.g.

a toga.) Although in name and appearance, Zippy is a microcephalic, he is distinctive not so much for his skull shape, or for any identifiable form of brain damage, but for his enthusiasm for philosophical non sequiturs ("All life is a blur of Republicans and meat!"), verbal free association, and pursuit of popular culture ephemera.

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