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Ziggy is an American cartoon series created by Tom Wilson, a former American Greetings executive.
Ziggy is a small, bald, trouserless, barefoot, almost featureless character (save for his large nose). The appeal of the cast is juxtaposed with the endless stream of misfortunes which befall Ziggy. The character is frequently depicted in surreal or arbitrary situations, though many jokes mine typical comic strip pop culture territory, such as computers and the perils of modern life. Other pop cultural references can be found in the archives.
Ziggy first appeared in the 1968 book collection How Do You Do, published by American Greetings. The newspaper strip began in June 1971. In 1987 the strip was taken over by his son, Tom Wilson II. The animated 1982 Christmas television special Ziggy's Gift, which contained the Harry Nilsson song "Give, Love, Joy", won an Emmy Award.
There have been annual calendars produced throughout the years, as well as various greeting cards, books, dolls, collectables, holiday-themed toys and promotional items.
Ziggy (ca. 1917–October 27, 1975) was a male Indian elephant who lived at Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago from 1936 to 1975. He weighed about six tons and was over ten feet tall. After attacking and nearly killing his keeper in 1941, Ziggy was chained to the wall of an indoor enclosure, and remained there for nearly three decades. His confinement became a cause célèbre in the late 1960s, when school children and other animal enthusiasts began campaigning for his release. Ziggy was briefly allowed to go outside in 1970, and a year later, the zoo completed a new outdoor facility specifically designed for the elephant. However, Ziggy only enjoyed a few years of freedom before dying in 1975.
Usage examples of "ziggy".
Fame maga2ine has long ago published its devastatingly competent capsule of Ziggy Zaglan, this chronicler is not going to try to top it.
He was one of those preposterous phenomena which afflict the public once in a generation like an epidemic: he resembled no other performer, living or dead, and indeed there was a cadre of diehards which forlornly maintained that he was not a performer at all, but millions of 100 per cent American housewives would have taken a Trappist vow sooner than they would have missed their daily dose of Ziggy Zaglan.
I used to know him fairly well in New York, before Ziggy was big enough to move down herebefore I even went to work for Fame.
Lois and I sat hashing over our notes and a few other things for about an hour, and then Ziggy came out waving a script and saying he had the show wrapped up and now we should all relax.
This I wanted like a brain tumor, but I figured that it might be part of our assignment to observe Ziggy on a bender, so I agreed to be sacrificed.
Finally Ziggy fell asleep, about five ayem, and Ted paid out a few hundred dollars from his account and we took him home.
I was having breakfast by the pool when Ziggy arrived and told me about Paul.
Lois promised I could meet Ziggy in person and perhaps get his autograph.
This was the dignified, the earnest Ziggy, who sometimes came out for a curtain speech in which he begged people to give generously to the Red Cross, or to remember an orphanage at Christmas, his plea made all the more cogent by that hoarse and helpless delivery, reminding them that under the motley of a clown might beat the heart of a frustrated crusader.
This was Ziggy Zaglan, in whom almost nobody could find any requisite of success except that millions of people were crazy about him,cf1He was halfway to the portable bar when he noticed Simon and skidded to a stop.
For instance, while there was an hour where Ziggy was only represented by a tapping typewriter, there was also an hour where you and Lois only have each other to testify that you were both sitting around here.
And when Ted took me aside and began selling Ziggy shorter than anyone, it made more sense all the time.
What percentage of your percentage of Ziggy did you have to promise him to sell the deal?
She started seeing a casual dope dealer called Ziggy who owned a Volkswagen Camper.
The press even tracked down Ziggy, who was living in a teepee in Anglesey.