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. Perhaps the character Tarzan is so enduring because he reminds us of ourselves.  He was raised by apes, just like we were. He became master of the jungle—as we all wish to do in school and later, in the workplace—and then he was somewhat tamed by Jane, his romantic p ..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. ———————————————————————————————————— Hysteria is natural in the course of history. We humans are a rascally species of apes and with our big brains and opposable thumbs, we’re experts at finding new ways to get into trouble. It seems there’s always something to be alarme ..read more

A couple of bat-men share stories over drinks. 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 blog post this week has some very fun extras. And here’s this week’s ANSWER KEY to my Sunday comic’s Secret Symbols. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Welcome, Pickles of Jazz. This week’s Sunday cartoon (above) is about the inevitabilities of romantic partnership. What starts as an exhilarating flight with a superhero nec ..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. ———————————————————————————————————— Wayno and I videotaped a chat we had on Google Meet on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of our first cartoon collaboration, and posted it online last week for readers who enjoy eavesdropping.  As a result, lots of folks asked ..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. ———————————————————————————————————— Nearly everyone has seen the famous image that I’ve satirized above. It is one of the most recognizable and parodied illustrations in the Western world. (I don’t know if it is as well-known in Asia.) The original illustration was creat ..read more

(Click above images to enlarge.) 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 moment of your reality, Jazz Pickles and Nudists. I say “your” reality because everyone’s is a little different. Some people would argue that reality is a fact that can be scientificall ..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, Pickles and Nudists, thanks for wandering by. My Sunday cartoon this week (above) features one of my favorite humor mechanisms: the bait and switch. A first glance convinces you you’re seeing something familiar—a cowboy and an Indian noticing sm ..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. ————————————————————— AN L.A. ART GALLERY THAT HANDLES BIZARRO ORIGINAL ART & SIGNED, LIMITED-EDITION PRINTS IS HAVING ANOTHER AUCTION. ONLY FOUR MORE DAYS TO BID! ————————————————————— いらっしゃいませ, Jazz Pickles and Nudists! (That’s “welcome” in Japanese, according to Go ..read more

I’m Dan Piraro, the creator of the Bizarro newspaper comic. Each week, I post my Sunday Bizarro comic, thoughts and comments, and the 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. Wilkommen, Jazz Pickles and Nudists! We’ll start today at the top. The title panel I used this week (parrot lady and crow cop, above) was cobbled together from a Sunday cartoon from 2010. (See below) It is always fun to be able to turn a common expression into an alternativ ..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. ———————————————————————————————————— Happy this, Jazz Pickles. Thanks for pointing your onboard skull computers at our cartoons. Stacking descending sizes of balls of snow and dressing them as humans is a time-honored tradition anywhere that snow happens. Even in places w ..read more