I’m Dan Piraro, the creator of the Bizarro newspaper comic, and this is my weekly blog post. The large Sunday comic above is mine, as are all of the comments below.
Since January 2018, the Monday-Saturday Bizarro comics have been written and drawn by my comics partner, Wayno. They follow this commentary. For more fun, check out Wayno’s weekly blog post.
And here’s this week’s ANSWER KEY to the Secret Symbols in my Sunday comic.
Welcome Jazz Pickles!
This holiday season, we hope some of you will be looking for ways to show your appreciation to a couple of your favorite cartoonists. A great way to do that is to buy some of the things we create and give them as gifts. Creating this stuff is how we keep off the streets and out of trouble.
Here are a few suggestions…
Our latest cartoon calendar for the new year (and other Bizarro fan shirts and stuff). Oh my goodness, the chuckles you’ll find within!
How about some Bizarro holiday greeting cards for all occasions and none? The chuckles will more than balance the cost of postage. (If you’re in the US.)
We also have plenty of non-religious Christmas cards.
Looking for something a little more special? Here you’ll find limited-edition, signed-and-numbered, high-quality prints of some of my favorite Bizarro cartoons. There are also original ink drawings from some of my comics.
And if none of this swag appeals to you, there’s always Wayno’s and my tip jars. We’re not wealthy cartoonists with private jets like a few of those you may be familiar with, and we’d be happy to give our comics away for free if we were (as we do on this website!) So we depend on the kindness of strangers like you to keep afloat. And there are no stranger strangers than Bizarro readers!
Thanks for bringing your wonderful strangeness here each week.
And now it’s time to see what wonderfully strange chucklmentations my amigo and partner in comedia, Wayno, has been up to with the week’s Bizarro comics…
I may be the only person in the world who doesn’t much like Oreos. To me, they taste like potting soil discs with lard in between. Though if they had our Secret Symbols imprinted on them, I might feel differently.
Sometimes, life just socks.
He performs under the name Bird Haggard.
They don’t call him Cat the Ripper for nothing.
When you’ve been in the graphics world as long as Wayno and I have, you find humor in fonts.
If it’s all the same to you, I’d rather have three tiny beers.
That concludes our mid-November watchamacallit of comedy, Jazz Pickles. I hope your holiday season will be full of tasty delights. Thanks for being here!
The Naked Cartoonist…My every-other-week essays and stories.
Limited edition, signed & numbered prints of BIZARRO CARTOONS, and some ORIGINALS!
Bizarro TIP JAR …One-time or repeating. Your choice!
WAYNO’S TIP JAR …One-time or repeating. Your choice!
My (free) graphic novel in progress, PEYOTE COWBOY.
Watch my PITCH VIDEO and become a supporter of Peyote Cowboy here.
Super fun BIZARRO SWAG from ComicsKingdom, including the new 2027 Bizarro Calendar! (IF ORDERING FROM CANADA or anywhere outside the US, CHECK SHIPPING COSTS CAREFULLY!)