Bizarre Bedfellows
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, whose weekly blog post I highly recommend.
And here’s this week’s ANSWER KEY to my Sunday comic’s Secret Symbols.
Welcome Jazz Pickles!
My Sunday cartoon above is likely to confuse a few readers of old-fashioned newspapers, but you Jazz Pickles are too smart to think I’d allow Bizarro to merge with Garfield, no matter how much Jim Davis begs. This bit of satire is as close as we want to get to Ol’ Tuna Breath, as we less financially successful cartoonists call him.
More importantly, it’s a special week here at Bizarro Craptastic Industries as we have reason to celebrate!
Our Vice President of Weekday Comics and Saturday Satire, Wayno®, has been nominated once again for a Silver Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in the category of Best Newspaper Panel! Huzzah!
This marks the ?th time he’s been nominated in this division, which he won just last year! He’s already got a studio full of all kinds of awards and trophies, but he just keeps hitting comics outta the park, so I’ve recommended that if he wins again this year, he rent one of those storage containers that sits in your driveway and lowers the property values of your entire neighborhood.
Here is one of the handful of comics from last year that he submitted for the judging. I still love this one, even when I’m not tripping on acid.
His fellow nominees include Dave Blazek and Bill Whitehead, who I’m told also draw comics and are almost as deserving as our resident King of Cartoons. Congrats to Dave and Bill as well!
No matter who wins this year, Olive Oyl and I, our cat, and two dogs, are as proud as I’m sure Mrs. VP of Weekday Comics and their two cats are. Congrats, Wayno, and thanks for bringing acclaim to our tiny village!
And here’s this week’s batch of contenders for next year’s awards…
I cried because I had no shoes until I Meta man who was still on Facebook.
Sorry, dude, that’s being done by A.I. now.
Meanwhile, the therapist’s marriage is toast.
I hate to break it to him, but he’s spent his entire life in a dead zone.
The frying pan accessory to the Mr. Potato Head toy was always one of my favorites.
Cookies are among my favorite diabetes flirtations!
One more quick announcement: Yesterday, I posted a new episode to my weird graphic novel, Peyote Cowboy. Read “Waking Up Rufus” here, and catch up on the story line from the Episodes page. Thanks!
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