We’re Stuffed
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 non-cartoon comments below.
Since January 2018, the Monday-Saturday Bizarro comics have been written and drawn by my comics 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.
Greetings, Jazz Pickles. Thanks for your visit.
At certain junctures of this illusion of time we call history, it is difficult not to associate otherwise innocent attempts at humor with current events. My Sunday cartoon above is doing that to me now.
When I first drew it, I didn’t have world events in mind, just a simple pun about stuffed animals being stuffed*. But when I look at it now, it reminds me of how certain people and entities cannot get enough. Whether it be food, money, businesses, countries, or forced fealty, they continue to conquer and acquire in what I can only suppose is an attempt to quell their existential angst. It must be hell to live with that kind of fear. It’s certainly hell to live under their reign.
*Stuffed means something very different in British slang, but I’m an American, so I’m taking license. Thanks to the Orange Menace, however, the entire free world is “stuffed” in the British sense.
A SPECIAL THING: My Naked Cartoonist article from a few days ago got a lot of positive comments, and a few readers asked me to make it shareable, so I have. The Naked Cartoonist is my subscription creative writing project. For $5 a month, subscribers get two of my original articles, usually sporadically illustrated with Bizarro cartoons from the past.
I’m offering this week’s article for free here. It’s a satire of the famous Sermon on the Mount, as delivered in the modern day from the 18th green by a certain Orange Menace whose existential angst knows no bounds. I hope you enjoy it, despite its sad truths.
Time now to stumble through my able comic partner Wayno’s orchard of Bizarro cartoons from the week.
Getting down to the fruit of the matter.
From the Great Chimera Cook-off.
Looks like he’s about to use that stick to knock the shillelagh out of him.
I went to Catholic school, too, and it can be hard to shake those indoctrination dreams.
We enjoy occasionally leaning into the editorial side of cartooning.
I visited Vermont once for a wedding and am happy to recall it wasn’t one of mine.
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