Skippy

Thomas Moore^[1] believes "Skippy" alludes to the Percy Crosby cartoon strip Skippy, of 1920s-1945 vintage:

"Skippy, like Orphan Annie, led a schlemihl's life, always threatened by evil forces of change, which meant, for the politically reactionary Crosby, Rooseveltian changes in the direction of liberalism, urbanism, and the homogenized Global Village." (p.170n.)

Wikipedia entry

Skippy home page

References

1. ↑ Moore, Thomas, The Style of Connectedness: Gravity's Rainbow and Thomas Pynchon, University of Missouri Press, 1987