Sisyphusize!
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 my Sunday comic’s Secret Symbols.
Hail, Jazz Pickles! Hell, why not?
I normally spend a half hour Sisyphusizing every morning before I get to work, but today I got up a little late, so I went straight to the task of pushing this blog boulder up the weekly hill.
Longtime Jazz Pickle, Kevin M, donated the title phrase of today’s comic as an idea for a new exercise craze, and I made the above comic from it. Thanks, JP First Class Kevin M! I’m promoting you to colonel.
On Friday, I posted an article on my Naked Cartoonist creative writing thing that is one of my favorites. It’s a bit of Buddhist kung fu titled “Are God and Bigfoot the Same Person?”
Whatever you’re thinking it’s about, it’s probably not about that. (But maybe it is. A little. It depends on what you’re thinking it’s about.)
Nonetheless, I had a llama-load of fun writing it, and I want to share the audio version of it with you today. I record each of my articles for the hard-of-reading, and this recording turned out very fun, I think. Have a listen and let me know what you think.
Audio by Sound Legacy
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All right already. It’s time to make little crescent moon shapes with our mouths as we become enchuckled by Wayno’s Bizarro comics from the week. Let the mooning begin!
That cracker Graham Bell was on his leave-a-message list.
We hope that no normal people are offended by this cartoon. That is never our intent.
We also hope that no peg-legged sea captains are offended by this cartoon. (If you have a prosthetic leg but are not a sea captain, this cartoon is not about you.)
We’ve all been there, dude. Some of us more than once.
This may be the only jury that would be sympathetic to a defendant who’s torn down part of a national monument like, say, the White House or something, and then began building a grotesque monument to himself in the form of a Golden Barbie Ballroom. Not that that would ever happen.
Coming soon to your neighborhood. Probably to kill you.
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