Many friends and former collaborators of legendary Vancouver drummer William Chobotar (better known as Zippy Pinhead) are reporting via social media that the punk-scene veteran has died. As of this ...

Bill Griffith’s new graphic biography Nobody’s Fool: the Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead tells the life story of Schlitzie, the microcephalic sideshow performer who inspired Griffith’s iconic ...

Who would have imagined in 1970 that Zippy the Pinhead would become a national icon, up there with Pogo, Charlie Brown, and Mr. Natural? “Never in my wildest underground imaginings did I foresee Zippy ...

There were some great characters in Vancouver’s early punk scene. But there was no one quite like Zippy Pinhead, the friendliest punk rocker you could ever hope to meet. “I googled ‘happy-go-lucky’ ...

Ninety years ago, the comic character Nancy was born. One of the most iconic and recognizable comic characters out there. You've more than likely seen her at some point. Nancy is an eight year old ...

Three dozen people who apparently could not live without the Zippy the Pinhead comic strip were so delighted by The Chronicle's decision to change its mind yesterday that they failed to pelt the ...

Sometime in the fall of 1963, a 19-year-old Brooklyn art student named Bill Griffith attended a midnight screening of the 1932 cult movie “Freaks.” He went in clueless; he came out profoundly shaken ...