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If Zippy the Pinhead got permission to visit Cuba, so should everyone else.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Bill Griffith's comic strip hero and alter-ego "Zippy the Pinhead" is so saturated with commercialism and television that he turns the commercial, the televised, and the real into the surreal, to the point where he worships at the altar of laundromat dryers.  Testing what would happen if Zippy went to a place where American commercialism and pop culture is suppressed -- due to an embargo nearly fifty-years old -- Bill Griffith traveled to Cuba on a cultural exchange in the mid-1990's, and recounted some of his experiences there word-for-word in his comic strip.  Now, through happy surrealism, none other than than longtime Republican Senator Richard Lugar -- from the party that most recently dominated the Cold War before it ended -- has taken wind out of the sails of Democrats (whose president, Kennedy, imposed the embargo in the first place), by urging a major revisiting of the embargo...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).