Tippi Firmcrust

Tippi Firmcrust, Blind Housewife, in ‘A Rose by Any Other Name’

One page; drawn 1980; published in Spastic Culture, 1983, and Real Girl #2, 1990
© 1983 Robert Triptow

Based almost word-for-word on a real conversation with my mother.

I’d probably do more of these cartoons, but why flog that horse? Besides, her physical resemblance to Nowhere Chick can cause some confusion. Tippi is reactionary and self-righteous, though, and Nowhere Chick has that irrepressible personality. Their hair says it all.

Meat Loaf Adventure

One page; drawn 1980, inked 1993

© 1984 Robert Triptow

Yeah, yeah, I know, it’s a cheap shot to make jokes about the blind. (That didn’t stop Jerry Garcia from laughing at the Helen Keller jokes I told him at Last Gasp Comix’ annual Burrito Bash.)

While I do indulge in blind jokes with Tippi, the point of these cartoons is that she’s more figuratively blind. Obnoxiously so.