To Be or Not To Be Dazzled
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.
Howdy, Jazz Pickles. It’s nice to imagine your face again.
Let’s start with a quick mention of my Naked Cartoonist creative writing project. I posted a story yesterday titled “Life With a Hand Up Your Butt” that is all about puppets, Muppets, and humanity. Here’s an excerpt:
“We may think puppets are nothing more than children’s toys, but I’m fascinated by the power they wield over us psychologically. Though we know they are not alive, we can easily be mesmerized by them, buying into their feigned words and movements until we are fully captivated by a construction of fabric scraps or wood. In a clever ventriloquism act, it is the puppet that has us in stitches, not the human.”
One of the many cartoons featured in the article
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Item #2 this week: I’m happy to see that a certain government admitted there was never any vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and that the problems it experienced were due to the crappy contractor hastily hired.
This comes as a surprise to a vanishingly small percentage of Americans. Most of us have already realized that anything the bullies who’ve taken over our junior high school say cannot be trusted.
Sadly, the Antifa Algae & Boxknife Terrorism Ninjas will now have to look for another target—maybe Lake Michigan or the Great Salt Lake. Of course, they’re going to need a bigger boxknife.
Finally, I have a correction for last week’s post. That cool house shown in the photo below, which I reported was in San Luis Obispo, is actually in Santa Barbara, California. Thanks to the several Jazz Pickles who pointed that out.
Olive Oyl does all the driving on these road trips, while I gaze out the windows in a haze of reverie, barely knowing what day it is or where I am. It’s a necessary reboot of my otherwise busy mind.
Time now to reboot our chuckle buttons with Wayno’s Bizarro comics from the week…
Unfortunately, I have the real kind, although I think it may have helped me write cartoons.
I tried this compliment on Olive Oyl, but she didn’t like it. It may only work on people with those circular stickers on their head and chest.
That’s the only kind I’d attend, not out of modesty, but because I have a sensitive gag reflex.
I’m pretty sure I’ve been to that show.
Frankenstein’s monster, made of multiple people's parts, is a metaphor for us all, genetically speaking.
I hate to have to tell those little men that book will not tell them where to find little women.
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