Help me understand the "Zippy" comic strip.

[TheCowsCameHome]

I am 73 years old, I have read and loved the comics page since I was old enough to hold a newspaper, but I cannot for the life of me understand "Zippy", which still appears in one of the dailies I subscribe to.

I have a great sense of humor and thoroughly enjoy most every other comic strip character(s). The talent these writers possess is simply amazing.

What am I not getting about this guy Zippy and his weird pals?

Thx.

[lunasun]

1. One of my favs although I haven't read it for a long time.

Why you calling him weird? that's not nice to say

[Lochloosa]

2. Dali.

[lunasun]

8. Happy Holidays !

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[FSogol]

3. It is an attempt to make points using Dadaism and absurdity.

From wiki

Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland at the Cabaret Voltaire (circa 1916); New York Dada began circa 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris. Developed in reaction to World War I, the Dada movement consisted of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works. The art of the movement spanned visual, literary, and sound media, including collage, sound poetry, cut-up writing, and sculpture. Dadaist artists expressed their discontent with violence, war, and nationalism, and maintained political affinities with the radical left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada

[Cirque du So-What]

4. My take is that

the microencephalic protagonist usually makes more sense than the 'smartest' guy in the room.

[shenmue]

10. I don't think it's funny

[cyclonefence]

5. I love this cartoon

but am uncomfortable about it.



Genuine "pinheads"--people with microcephaly (incidentally one of the birth defects the Zika virus can cause) were exhibited at carnivals and most famously appeared in the Tod Browning film "Freaks."

[FSogol]

9. True, but nowadays, pinheads get elected to the US Congress:

Exhibit 1: Trey Gowdy:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. It's just a cartoon, but Roger Stone is real, and even more absurd.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Quite a profile - classic neanderthal look, no?