Shelf-Life

Born in the pages of Zippy Quarterly #1 in 1993, Shelf-Life is a Fantagraphics creation from the hand of the legendary underground cartoonist Bill Griffith, stepping into the wonderfully off-kilter world that surrounds Zippy the Pinhead. A product of the Copper/Modern Age, this character keeps genuinely eccentric company — sharing panels with Zippy himself, Griffy, Claude Funston, and the rest of Griffith's singular cast across Zippy Quarterly, Zippy Annual, and Zippy's House of Fun. With only a handful of catalog appearances, Shelf-Life is a rare find, the kind of deep-cut discovery that makes devoted Griffith readers feel like true insiders.