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Mr. ZIP on a 1963 sign. The USPS has described the origin of Mr. ZIP as follows: [1] [2] [3] Mr. ZIP was based on an original design by Howard Wilcox, son of a letter carrier and a member of the Cunningham and Walsh advertising agency, for use by a New York bank in a bank-by-mail campaign.
Zippy's favorite foods are taco sauce and Ding Dongs. [11] He sometimes snacks on Polysorbate 80. Zippy's signature expression of surprise is "Yow!" Zippy's unpredictable behavior sometimes causes severe difficulty for others, but never for himself. (For example, drug dealers tried to use him as a drug mule, but lost their stash or were jailed.)
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Zippy's is open 24 hours and offers a wide variety of food combining American, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Hawaiian cuisine—that is, what people who live in Hawaii call "local" cuisine. [7] One of their signature dishes when they first opened was the Zip-min. [ clarification needed ] [ 8 ] Its signature food is their chili .
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At first titled Yow [34] (which is Zippy's exclamation when he is surprised), the title was changed to Zippy for the final issue. [35] The first full-length Zippy collection, Zippy Stories, was published in 1981 by And/Or Press. The collection was brought back to print by Last Gasp in 1984, and had multiple printings (up through 1995). [36]
Mr. ZIP, informally Zippy, a cartoon character used by the U.S. Postal Service; Zippy (mascot), the name of the mascot for the University of Akron Zips; Zippy (Rainbow), a character in Rainbow, a British pre-school children's television series; Zippy the Pinhead, the main character in a comic strip of the same name