Being Funny
I’m Dan Piraro, the creator of the Bizarro newspaper comic, and this is my weekly blog post. The large Sunday Bizarro comic above is mine, as are the comments below. The past week’s Monday-Saturday Bizarro comics that follow were written and drawn by my partner Wayno. For more fun, check out Wayno’s weekly blog post.
And here’s this week’s ANSWER KEY to my Sunday comic’s Secret Symbols.
Welcome, Jazz Pickles.
As we used to say in surrealism school, “When the going gets weird, the weird get funny.” I’m not sure what that means or if it means anything at all, but times sure are weird lately.
My Sunday cartoon above is about one of my strongest pet peeves: discrimination against people for who they love and how they see themselves.
I was born with an innate dislike of injustice, and one area that continues to make that pet bark loudly is those who do not respect the vast human variation in personal orientation.
I say “personal” instead of “sexual,” because it’s nobody else’s damn business who pushes your buttons.
For those tempted to cite “holy scripture” as a reason to demonize non-cisgender people, I’d add that scripture is only as holy as the person interpreting it, and nobody I’d call “holy” would persecute someone for the way they were born.
Anyone tempted to say LGBTQ+ persons are not born that way, but chose to be outside the average, I’d ask them if there was a point in their life when they “chose” what kind of person would turn them on. Furthermore, could they change that in midstream and “decide” to be attracted to a different kind of person?
Of course not. Neither could I.
Using an ancient sentence written by God-only-knows who, and translated several times by various homophobes and politicians over many hundreds of years, is not a good excuse for being a bigot. If I were your god, I’d ask what the hell you were thinking. Then I’d ask if you’d bothered to familiarize yourself with the history of the book you assume is “God’s word.”
I likely wouldn’t be ranting about this today if the current fascist gang squatting in the White House and the Capitol weren’t actively persecuting LGBTQ+ folks (as well as any number of other minority groups of non-white, non-male, and non-Christians). America deserves better. Humanity deserves better.
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I confess I’m a little nostalgic for the days when forgery and counterfeiting were done by hand.
No turkeys were harmed in the making of this cartoon.
I can see why, now that he’s paying gigantic tariffs.
Thanks to the internet and AI, “writing” is no longer a necessary part of publishing.
More importantly, how many “likes?”
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