08.12.05
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dan bloom Said:
August 20, 2005 at 12:40 pm
taiwanho.com林嘉軒
Hello Gea-Suan Lin,
Please email me. You were right. That bench in the front of the photo
has Japanese writing, so it cannot be in Taiwan. My friends in Tokyo
found the correct location, in Ishaya City, Japan. In the September 19
issue of the Taipei Times, in the ZIPPY cartoon on the comics page,
you will see this bus stop depicted in the cartoon. Thanks to you,
YOU, all this happened. Please email me. I want to thank you in
person.
Dan
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PHOTO: http://www.taiwanho.com/people/dan
danbloom Said:
August 29, 2005 at 3:30 pm
zippythepinhead.comtaipeitimes.com],agilitynut.comboingboing.netkonagai.orgtaipeitimes.comZippy does Japan (with a stop first in Taiwan)
In today’s Taipei Times, on page 19, the Zippy comic strip features a
storyline focused on a watermelon-shaped bus stop in Ishaya City,
Japan. Before you go any further, turn to page 19 and look at the
Zippy strip for today. As you can see, Zippy the Pinhead is waiting
inside a bus stop in Japan, when he suddenly hears the announcement
that the bus is coming and will arrive shortly, and then he muses to
himself: “I sure hope the bus is shaped like a sausage.”
How this particular comic strip came to be has an interesting
backstory that involves this newspaper, some Taiwanese Internet
surfers in Taipei, a Japanese couple in Tokyo and, of course, the
cartoonist Bill Griffith himself [URL: http://www.zippythepinhead.com ]
It all happened like this:
A few months ago, there was an article in the Taipei Times about
“tai-ke” [www.taipeitimes.com], and in the article it was mentioned that some
taike like to eat watermelon slices dipped in soy sauce mixed with
wasabi. When a reader saw that description of the taike way of noshing
on watermelon in Taiwan, he did an image search on Google under the
words “watermelon”, “wasabi” and “soy sauce”, in hopes of find out
more about this popular dish and maybe even seeing a photograph of
people eating it.
However, while not finding any photos of the watermelon and wasabi
dish, this reader did find a photograph of a watermelon-shaped bus
stop, said by the website hosting the photo to be in Taiwan.
[URL: http://www.agilitynut.com/p/taiwan.jpg ]
Feeling that the photo of a watermelon-shaped bus stop in Taiwan was
cool, the reader decided to send the picture to the popular
boingboing.net website in the U.S., where submissions from surfers are
accepted from time to time. Boingboing.net ran the bus stop photo from
Taiwan, and it was picked up by bloggers around the world, from Italy
to Brazil. The photo was captioned: “Roadside Taiwan”.
[URL: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/28/roadside_taiwan.html ]
However, a savvy Taiwanese surfer in Taipei noticed that the bench in
the photo had some small words written in what appeared to be
Japanese, not Chinese, so he surmised (and posted a note on his own
blog) that the bus stop in question was not in Taiwan, but in Japan.
At this point, the Taipei Times reader who first spotted the photo on
Google, alarmed that the picture might have been mis-labeled and was
not from “roadside Taiwan” but was rather from roadside Japan, sent
the photo to two friends in Japan and asked them if those words on the
bench were indeed Japanese. They answer that came back from Satoru and
Mitsuko Ebihara in Yokohama was that, yes, the words were in Japanese
kanji, they were not Chinese, and that in fact, the bus stop in
question was actually in a city called Ishaya in Japan.
[URL: http://www.konagai.org/furusato/IndexGenerator.asp?path=fruitbusstop ]
At this point, the cartoonist Bill Griffith in Connecticut, had
already spotted this watermelon-shaped bus stop on boingboing.net and
decided he wanted to use the image in one of his upcoming Zippy
cartoons. So he wrote to boingboing.net, asking in which city in
Taiwan the bus stop was located, not knowing that the early
information was incorrect and that the bus stop was in Japan. When he
found out — via a series of emails bouncing back and forth between
Chiayi, Taipei, Tokyo, Los Angeles and Connecticut — where the bus
stop was actually located, Griffith decided to go with his plans to do
a strip about it, and after completing it in his studio, dated it
September 19 and sent it to his syndicate in Kansas City, which
supplies the daily Zippy cartoon to over 500 newpapers worldwide.
And that is what you are looking at today: a comic strip forged in
Connecticut with an assist from people in Taiwan and Japan and
published worldwide. Enjoy!
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Note: Freelance writer Dan Bloom interviewed cartoonist Bill Griffith for the Taipei
Times last year.
[URL: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2004/09/06/2003201905 ]
SIDEBAR
Excerpt from ”Taipei Times” interview by Dan Bloom, September 6, 2004:
Griffith has placed Zippy and Griffy in a few strips that took place in Japan, with lots of funny English terms and phrases that the Japanese use on T-shirts, product names and store signs. When asked if Zippy might visit Taiwan again for future strips, Griffith said, “It’s true, the Japanese interest in the English language is very Zippyesque. Strangely poetic.”
“Zippy did go to Taiwan recently — it was in the strip from Feb. 18, 2004, titled “Ollie Ollie Oxen Free,” and the animal statues in the four panels were inspired by photographs from Taiwan that an expat there named Aaron Spinak sent to me.
“The photos were from a lawn sculpture store in Pingtung. I’d love to see photographs of more possible Taiwan locations for Zippy to visit. Sure, tell readers there to send me photos of anything Zippyesque in Taiwan. Zippy will be happy to discuss world affairs with a betel nut beauty, sure!”
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liuzheng Said:
April 1, 2008 at 12:16 am
I did same thing, but for different resaon. have a good day~
天使会唱歌 Said:
September 18, 2008 at 5:24 am
楼主的这个博客写的不错呀，要加油哦！
书迷 Said:
October 6, 2008 at 12:40 am
我一定会继续支持博主，记住新博客