BALTIMORE
Comic strip character Zippy the Pinhead, on his recent visit
to Baltimore, had a few words for
his elected representative.
Standing in front of the Senator Theatre, Zippy is shocked
when he realizes the building’s symbolism.
“So that’s where the senator resides!” Zippy
exclaims when he reads the name above the marquee. “Senator! We need to
talk about pork barrels!”
In the strip’s second panel, an increasingly irate Zippy
demands answers. “How do you justify living in such a palatial mansion at
th’ taxpayers’ expense?”
That and two other strips published in June were the result
of creator Bill Griffith’s April visit to Charm City, when he addressed Tom
Chalkley’s cartooning class at Johns Hopkins University and appeared at a book
signing.
“Wherever I go, Zippy goes,” Griffith said in a
phone call from his home in East Haddam, Conn., where he is working on his next
book, “Walk a Mile in My Muu-muu.”
