Editing Zippy the Pinhead (section)

==Appearances elsewhere==
Comedian [[Jim Turner (comedian)|Jim Turner]] appeared as Zippy on college campuses as well as in several live-action short videos alongside [[Diane Noomin]], in character as DiDi Glitz, for a satirical campaign during the [[1980 United States presidential election|1980 presidential election]], which Griffith wrote 8 episodes of that aired on local San Francisco station [[KQED (TV)|KQED]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Griffith |first=Bill |date=2011 |title=Bill Griffith Lost and Found |location= Seattle|publisher=Fantagraphics Books |page=xv |isbn=978-1-60699-482-5 }}</ref>

Following years of a ''Zippy'' movie project that was never made between 1984 and 1995, Griffith devoted dozens of strips to his real and imagined dealings with Hollywood. An animated television series, to be produced by [[DPS Film Roman|Film Roman]] and co-written by Diane Noomin, was in negotiations from 1996 to 2001, but fell through after Film Roman failed to find funding.<ref>{{cite web |author=<!-- not stated --> |date=n.d.|title=THE NEVER-TO-BE ZIPPY ANIMATED SERIES |url= https://www.zippythepinhead.com/pages/animation.html|website= zippythepinhead.com|publisher= Bill Griffith|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221094539/https://www.zippythepinhead.com/pages/animation.html |archive-date= February 21, 2024|access-date=February 19, 2025}}</ref>

On July 9, 2004, Zippy made his stage debut in San Francisco in ''Fun: The Concept'' at the Dark Room Theatre. Bill Griffith approved of the adaptation, though he did not work on the project. ''Fun: The Concept'' was adapted by Denzil J. Meyers with Jim Fourniadis.<ref>{{Citation
  | last = Griffith
  | first = Bill
  | title = Zippy—the Play
  | year = 2004
  | url = http://www.zippythepinhead.com/pages/theplay/FrameSet.htm
  | access-date = 9 November 2008 }}
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A collection of about 1,000 Zippy quotes was formerly packaged and distributed with the [[Emacs]] text editor. Some installations of the "[[Fortune (Unix)|fortune]]" command, available on most Unix-type systems, also contain this collection. This gives Zippy a very wide audience, since most Emacs users can have a random Zippy quote printed on their screen by typing "M-x yow" and most Linux or BSD users can get a random quote by typing "fortune zippy" in a [[Unix shell|shell]]. However, as a result of a decision by [[Richard Stallman]] prompted by FSF lawyer [[Eben Moglen]], motivated by copyright concerns,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-06/msg00290.html |title=Re: yow.c |publisher=Lists.gnu.org |access-date=2013-02-18}}</ref>  these quotes were erased in GNU Emacs 22.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/etc/yow.lines?revision=1.11&root=emacs&view=markup |title=[emacs&#93; View of /emacs/etc/yow.lines |publisher=Cvs.savannah.gnu.org |access-date=2013-02-18}}</ref> Zippy under emacs now will only say "Yow! Legally-imposed CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED!".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.red-bean.com/pipermail/arcana/2007-August/000019.html|title=[Arcana] Yow! Legally-imposed CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED!}}</ref> Zippy can be restored by replacing the yow file with one from an older Emacs.

After Griffith criticized [[Scott Adams]]' comic ''[[Dilbert]]'' for being "a kind of childish, depleted shell of a once-vibrant medium,"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zippythepinhead.com/pages/aaarticles.html |title=Articles by Bill Griffith |publisher=Zippythepinhead.com |access-date=2018-02-12}}</ref> Adams responded a year and half later on May 18, 1998, with a comic strip called ''Pippy the Ziphead'', "cramming as much artwork in as possible so no one will notice there's only one joke... [and] it's on the reader."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/1998-05-18/ |title=Dilbert comic strip for May 18, 1998 |publisher=Dilbert.com |access-date=2023-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025052158/https://dilbert.com/strip/1998-05-18 |archive-date=2020-10-25}}</ref> [[Dilbert (character)|Dilbert]] notes that the strip is "nothing but a clown with a small head who says random things" and [[Dogbert]] responds that he is "maintaining his artistic integrity by creating a comic that no one will enjoy."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dilbert.com/strip/1998-05-19 |title=Dilbert comic strip for May 19, 1998 |publisher=Dilbert.com |access-date=2015-08-24}}</ref>

Zippy also makes an appearance in the 1995 round-robin work ''[[The Narrative Corpse]]'' where he takes the [[stick figure]] protagonist to [[Croatia]] for "peace and quiet". Another appearance can be found in the [[Ramones]]' comic book-themed 2005 compilation ''[[Weird Tales of the Ramones]]'', consisting of Zippy asking to play "air [[glockenspiel]]" for the band.

Zippy appears in several issues of the Red Anvil Comics 2011 comic book series ''War of the Independents''.