I’m Dan Piraro, the creator of the Bizarro newspaper comic. Each week, I post my Sunday Bizarro comic, a short essay, and then the past week’s Monday-Saturday Bizarro comics written and drawn by my partner Wayno, whose weekly blog post I highly recommend. And here’s this week’s ANSWER KEY to my Sunday comic’s Secret Symbols. ———————————————————————————————————— Bienvenidos, Jazz Pickles. Gracias por visitarme. If the Indian-themed cartoon above doesn’t immediately make sense, go read Moby Dick and then come back. (No need to finish the entire novel; just read until the cartoon clicks.) The ac ..read more

I’m Dan Piraro, the creator of the Bizarro newspaper comic. Each week, I post my Sunday Bizarro comic, a short essay, and then the past week’s Monday-Saturday Bizarro comics written and drawn by my partner Wayno, whose weekly blog post I highly recommend. And here’s this week’s ANSWER KEY to my Sunday comic’s Secret Symbols. ———————————————————————————————————— Saludos, Jass Peekles. Nice of you to drop by. Around eight or ten years ago, King Features asked me to move my blog to their Comics Kingdom website. I like KF, they’ve done right by me, but I decided against it for several reasons, ch ..read more

I’m Dan Piraro, the creator of the Bizarro newspaper comic. Each week, I post my Sunday Bizarro comic, a short essay, and then the past week’s Monday-Saturday Bizarro comics written and drawn by my partner Wayno, whose weekly blog post I highly recommend. And here’s this week’s ANSWER KEY to my Sunday comic’s Secret Symbols. ———————————————————————————————————— Buenos dias, Jazz Zpickles. I’m glad you’re here, wherever this is.  This was a rough week for Americans who cherish the two pillars of our country: democracy and the rule of law. For our foreign readers who may be unaware, July 4 ..read more

By Dan Piraro [This post is from my weekly subscription newsletter The Naked Cartoonist. Subscription info here.] Audio produced by Temporary Genius Productions It’s a politically scary time on planet Earth. But it’s important to note that this is neither the first, nor the scariest time our species has experienced, by a long shot. You could fill a volume the size of the Manhattan phonebook (trust me, they were huge and the type was tiny) with a list of the catastrophes humans have caused and/or endured in our brief time here, but I won’t attempt to cite them. Just know that there have been a ..read more

I’m Dan Piraro, the creator of the Bizarro newspaper comic. Each week, I post my Sunday Bizarro comic, a short essay, and then the past week’s Monday-Saturday Bizarro comics written and drawn by my partner Wayno, whose weekly blog post I highly recommend. And here’s this week’s ANSWER KEY to my Sunday comic’s Secret Symbols. ———————————————————————————————————— Hey there, Jazz Pickles. Thanks for spending a few seconds of your life with us. I admit that I am perplexed by gambling. When I was growing up, it wasn’t legal in most places in the U.S. outside of Nevada, and certainly not in Baptis ..read more

Hi, Jazz Pickles. I value an uncluttered inbox as much as you do, so forgive me for sending this unexpected, midweek email. (The nerve!) I have a separate mailing list for followers of my graphic novel Peyote Cowboy, and many of you are on that list. That list is broken right now and I just posted a new episode, so this list is my only way of contacting at least some of my readers. Thanks for understanding. The latest episode is titled “The Fall of Shambles,” and is part of the story of Skully’s life before he died. That’s skully on the left, above, riding the skeleton horse. To be honest, th ..read more

I’m Dan Piraro, the creator of the Bizarro newspaper comic. Each week, I post my Sunday Bizarro comic, a short essay, and then the past week’s Monday-Saturday Bizarro comics written and drawn by my partner Wayno, whose weekly blog post I highly recommend. And here’s this week’s ANSWER KEY to my Sunday comic’s Secret Symbols. Thanks for stopping by, Jazz Pickles. It’s good to imagine seeing you.  I’ve occasionally wondered about the people whose job it is to wear big mascot costumes. They aren’t only used for sports teams—various commercial characters in crazy costumes can also be seen sc ..read more

I’m Dan Piraro, the creator of the Bizarro newspaper comic. Each week, I post my Sunday Bizarro comic, a short essay, and then the past week’s Monday-Saturday Bizarro comics written and drawn by my partner Wayno, whose weekly blog post I highly recommend. And here’s this week’s ANSWER KEY to my Sunday comic’s Secret Symbols. ———————————————————————————————————— If you’re not familiar with the name of surrealist painter René Magritte—the inspiration for the above cartoon—you’ve probably seen his work. Here’s a page of his most famous paintings.  Both Wayno and I have drawn numerous cartoo ..read more

I’m Dan Piraro, the creator of the Bizarro newspaper comic. Each week, I post my Sunday Bizarro comic, a short essay, and then the past week’s Monday-Saturday Bizarro comics written and drawn by my partner Wayno, whose weekly blog post I highly recommend. And here’s this week’s ANSWER KEY to my Sunday comic’s Secret Symbols. ———————————————————————————————————— Welcome to this thing, Jazz Pickles. I hope you’re feeling crispy and tart today. The Sunday cartoon above is about sibling rivalry, albeit among mythological characters. I once read that even though it can be brutal, it is completely ..read more

By Dan Piraro (The following article is from my subscription newsletter The Naked Cartoonist. Subscribers receive a new article via email each Friday morning, and this one from yesterday got such a positive response that I’ve been asked to make it available to non-subscribers, too. I also include an audio version for each article. Subscription info.) Audio produced by Temporary Genius Productions Me and the kids around 1990, pretending we were at the beach from our front yard in Dallas. I successfully raised two children to adulthood who, until recently, I called my daughters. But in the past ..read more