After taking Friday night off to be just a regular member of an audience for a change (I joined the sold-out crowd for Bill Maher’s often wickedly funny socio/political analysis at the Hippodrome), I ...

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 ...

As a child, Lorraine Whittlesey was a member of TV’s Peanut Gallery, helping make a star of an excitable, squeaky-voiced marionette named Howdy Doody. Next weekend, she’ll be sitting in the audience ...

An unshaven man wearing a bright yellow and red polka dot muumuu and clown shoes sits in a cafe, discussing astronomy and confectionery with a gravel-voiced toad sporting a bow tie and three-piece ...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/comics/Zippy_the_Pinhead_Color.dtl<BR><BR>Somehow, knowing the translation doesn't really make me any less confused..

For all of Griffith's jeers at the predictability of the funny pages, he hints a few times in this collection of strips from 2003 and 2004 that all he's ever wanted is to be as reliable as Nancy ...