Claude Funston

Stepping out of the wonderfully weird world Bill Griffith built at Fantagraphics, Claude Funston made his debut in Zippy Quarterly #1 in 1993, arriving squarely in the Modern Age of underground-inflected alternative comics. With only a handful of catalog appearances, Claude is a rare presence — a supporting player in the gloriously surreal orbit of Zippy the Pinhead, sharing pages with iconic Griffith creations like Griffy, Zerbina, and Mr. Toad across Zippy Quarterly, Zippy Annual, and Zippy's House of Fun. If you're a devotee of Fantagraphics' alternative canon and love digging into the deeper corners of Griffith's offbeat universe, Claude Funston is exactly the kind of obscure gem that rewards the curious collector.