Oct. 11, 1969
The day the running stopped for
the Fugitive Zodiac.

Was he in advertising
Was he an artist
Was he a sign/billboard painter
Was he an insurance salesman
Was he a mechanic
Was he a car salesman
Was he a portrait/landscape photographer
Was he a journalist
Was he a photo-journalist
Was he a sports photographer
Was he a writer
Was he a historian
Was he cast down and rejected like Jimmy Olsen
in Superman and this why he had such a high ego.
Is he legally blind in one eye, and is this what
made him a good shooter.
Would it be his left eye, being his (?) was
hanging from his right side, at lake Berryessa,
meaning he was right handed?
Did he win a Graphic Grayflex award at
four-teen. Four-teen on post card.
Are his letters in Calif. lingo, or Brooklyn lingo, or a mix.
He said if Count M could write, then so could he.
With so much of his sharades coming for
periodicals, means, he did assignments
for them?
He did hate his competition…Paul, Herb, Count M.
I mean, he attacked them in his letters,
but never Life, Post, Paris Match, Time, etc.
Why Melvin and not F. Bailey?
The murder scenes… College, Yellow Cab,
State Lake, City Park City pump station.=Important places.
Important Trial Lawyer, important writers
and journalist. But not important victims
in Zodiac’s eyes?

Zodiac was a sociopathic liar, why should
anyone believe him!
Can we believe this one thing…
I would have sent you a picture but you would
have traced it back to me. (sic)

The above is a little list for thought.
Is he still alive?
I bet he is!
Is he watching us? I hope!

Hey Zodiac, got some dastardly letter you
can send into the SFC?
I dare you!

Blind Bat

In the next few days I will post a very rare military book
Zodiac used for his Mountain bomb map idea.

Zodiac, did you really think you could fool
people with your JFK route going around Diablo?
JFK’s route was in the Dallas paper a week before
he was shot.
Like you sent yours in-advance!

The east sun,(sic)…a dead give-away!
Swamped out! (sic)
You should have holes in your head! (Sic) LMAO

Blind Bat

I was actually hoping for the full Peek-a-Boo newspaper article–not the criss-cross writing. Curious about the date of it too.

Were you a blindbowman?

You started off slow and cryptic blind bat .. Warming up nicley.. Eagerly awaiting your next move..

Bats aren’t really blind are they!

I have a very important question!

Does anyone know, or-can ask the SFP if
the shirt piece Zodiac mailed in to them,
was actually torn or cut from Paul’s shirt,
or if pinking sheers was used to cut the pieces up.

From the photos I have seen, pinking sheers
look favorable!

Thanks in advance.

Blind Bat

The shirt was torn or ripped, not cut

Is this periodical where Zodiac got his
idea for Peek Through The Pines?
Notice the X in the ground.
Also, notice the hunters looking and standing
around.

Zodiac did say, "look around."

The Lass postcard/letter was clipped form a newspaper ad for a development that was being built

Belli & Peek A Boo Penington

Some thoughts on the pi advert.

The peek-a-boo stuff is good but it’s hardly conclusive. Actually until it’s explored it’s not conclusive. I would hesitate to even call it unique. I have had people send me poi’s artwork to look at that have included eyes with lashes on them. Yes, I know this has the added ‘peek’ part but what I’m saying is that it’s not necessarily unique. There is nothing new under the sun, everything gets re-hashed and recycled. The peek-a-boo phrase is commonly followed by ‘I see you’ i.e. I’ve found you. Derived from the game of hide n’ seek it’s a rather appropriate marketing/branding angle for a private investigator. The O’s as eyes is a fairly basic graphic adaptation and a reasonably obvious one given the subject matter and the use of the ‘peek’ phrase. The inclusion of the lashes, I venture to suggest, may well have been a graphic norm for the time. Today the same techniques and approaches are still used although the styling has changed and the inclusion of the obvious (i.e the lashes) isn’t always required. In fact it’s more often than not avoided as it would be considered too obvious and therefore not ‘clever’ enough.

Looking at the HC Zodiac’s approach is to employ a twist on the well known phrase rendering it as ‘Peek-a-boom’ in obvious reference to his bomb threats. He also employs a technique on this card that is quite common in design whereby you combine or cross words through each other so that they still read correctly. Less skillfully with the ‘peek-a-boom’ but given the scale, space and rendering material, understandable. He does this on the envelope, the inside of the card and on the back of the card. Essentially he chooses a styling technique and then employs it across the whole project. The inclusion of the eyes is graphic mainstay to accompany any derivative of the phrase ‘peek-a-boo’. It’s practically unavoidable and as I’ve already said the addition of the lashes was probably the graphic norm at the time and for decades either side.

Sometimes in this case we find things that are reasonably conclusive. Sometimes actually conclusive. With the HC we can’t be so sure. What does appear to rise out of it though is this graphic approach. He approached this almost as a mini design project and that is further suggested by the ‘extras’. The pumpkin and the skeleton (which btw ‘appears’ to have evidence of scalpel/hobby knife trimming – another design technique).

For myself and the reasons stated above I wonder not just about an immediate correlation between Zodiac and the owner/subject of the ad. What I am wondering though is … who designed it and where? Independent, design house, printers? Or maybe it was the person who placed it? Some other avenues to consider if the ad and it’s owner doesn’t yield anything useful directly. Unfortunately though if, and I say ‘if’, Zodiac was creatively inclined or even experienced then my worry is he could have taken inspiration from anything and everything when compiling his mailings and that makes it even trickier to attribute any one thing definitively as a direct influence or relevance even when it appears compelling.

Encouraging aint I? lol

I was actually hoping for the full Peek-a-Boo newspaper article–not the criss-cross writing. Curious about the date of it too.

Were you a blindbowman?

Found it. Milwaukee Sentinel, March 15 1946, page 57.

http://i.imgur.com/SubgXJu.jpg

Source: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19460315&id=JrwdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BQ0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5693,2993903

Found it. Milwaukee Sentinel, March 15 1946, page 57.

What’s the March 17, 1916 date at the bottom?

Found it. Milwaukee Sentinel, March 15 1946, page 57.

What’s the March 17, 1916 date at the bottom?

If you go to the source link and look at the page prior to this one, it is 1946…appears part of the "4" did not come through on the copy.

Maybe we could reach out to Sons(or Grandsons) of Pennington for more info?? I have addresses if somebody wants to

http://penningtonresearch.org/Newsmakers

Peek-a-Boo’ Pennington

Thanks to Verne Deubler, California Genealogical Society for the copy of the newspaper article.

Maybe z used his services, or someone used his services against him. Resulting in a marriage break down or other difficulty, bringing him into contact with the advertising of Pennington which tickled his fancy.

Peak-a-boo song sheet music cover.
Matrix is 16 x 20…oh so close!