This appeared in the Washington City Paper last week. Click through for the comics-related answer:
Why is the letter Z associated with sleep?
Cecil Adams
The Straight Dope July 26, 2012
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3063/why-is-the-letter-z-associated-with-sleep
Dear Cecil:
Why is the letter Z, specifically, associated with sleeping? It seems silly to have a letter correspond with sleep at all, but even sillier that we don't do this with any other action. You don't hear being awake referred to as "catching some A's."
— Ethan Reber
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