When Up is Relative
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 below-cartoon comments to follow.
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.
Thanks for stopping by, Jazz Pickles.
In last week’s post, I featured 20 of my title panels (the small, square graphic at the top of these posts) and asked if you’d like to see any of them on a T-shirt, and if so, to vote for your faves.
The response was surprisingly robust, and we got over 500 votes! So we’re in the process of turning the top five vote getters into shirts, and a few other products, too.
Thanks so much for your enthusiasm! More on this soon.
A few days ago, I published a new Naked Cartoonist article titled “How to Avoid a Horror Show Marriage.” (I should know, I’ve had two.) It’s been quite popular (and not at all political!), so here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite.
“Couples therapists wisely recommend being in a relationship for two or three years before deciding to marry. That’s because while nothing feels more euphoric and transcendent than falling in love, it also renders you the stupidest that you’ll ever be. Those two years give that toasted marshmallow explosion in your skull time to morph back into a working brain.
That advice comes from people who’ve made a career of listening to spouses complain about each other, often with tears, shouting, and gnashing of teeth. Trust them when they tell you not to rush into it.
I rushed into my first two marriages like I was saving children from a flaming orphanage, which would have been less dangerous than those marriages turned out to be.”
The article also contains some of my favorite comics about relationships and matrimony. It’s sort of a humorous “how to” and “how not to” manual on marriage.
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Now let’s enjoy Wayno’s highly enchucklicating Bizarro comics from the week…
I found a Bitcoin in my washing machine the other day. I must’ve left it in my pocket.
It’s the bloodiest awards show on TV, which may account for its high ratings.
There will never be a better song by an actor than William Shatner’s “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”
Unfortunately, I’m a much better spell victim than spell caster.
Tell that to my friends Theodore and Cliodore. They’ve been married for over 30 years, a few of them happily.
He wrote the book “Testing Crashes for Dummies.”
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