Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Hard-boiled Zippy

[“Pulp Faction.” Zippy, August 7, 2024. Click for a larger view.]

Today’s Zippy channels Raymond Chandler. The source in this panel is a sentence from Farewell, My Lovely (1940): “Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.” With pipe and glasses, the writer bears an unmistakable resemblance to Chandler.

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