Bill Griffith’s Character, Zippy the Pinhead, was Inspired by William Henry Johnson. Johnson was Born with an Unusual Tapering Cranium and Worked for PT Barnum as Zip the Pinhead.

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Bill Griffith is the creator of the iconic ‘Zippy the Pinhead’ and an American underground comix movement member. Born William Henry Jackson Griffith, he attempted to become the “next big thing” in New York’s art world, but in 1967 he realized the “art thing” wasn’t going to work out. So, in 1969, he began drawing […]

Bill Griffith’s Character, Zippy the Pinhead, was Inspired by William Henry Johnson. Johnson was Born with an Unusual Tapering Cranium and Worked for PT Barnum as Zip the Pinhead. Read More »