In my last post, I promised to link these three things:

• William Henry Jackson, a photographer, took thousands of photographs of the American West, which were used to bring attention to Yellowstone (a story told in A Weird and Wild Beauty), which then led to the formation of the first national park. His photos were also widely circulated as postcards and as cards for stereoscopes.

• Bill Griffith, a cartoonist, writes a pioneering underground comic called Zippy, and recently wrote a graphic novel about his great-grandfather, William Henry Jackson.

• Camp Host Chad, a writer, author of this blog, Campfire Tales – which occasionally mingles poetry and history and national parks, like this post about the founding of Yellowstone. He has twice been published in Good Times magazine – in issues which included Zippy. Plus, he inherited a stereoscope from his grandfather.

While those mini-bios are vastly incomplete about every subject referenced, they do connect the dots and should be enough rabbit holes to keep y’all busy until next time…

And on that note, I’ll leave you with this, the Zippy comic published in the Good Times the same week as my last appearance there (1997):