Saturday, July 07, 2012

Eye Eye, Captain

The Bizarro comic for Sunday, July 8 depicts a leader who refuses to take halfway measures.
Pirates appear regularly* in Bizarro, almost as often as psychiatrists, bartenders, and clowns, so I was pleased to come up with a new variation on the theme.

Here's my sketchbook version of this gag:
My submission is laid out for the daily panel format, and I was very happy to see that Dan Piraro chose to use it as a Sunday comic, giving him room to do a nice panoramic view of the deck with a bit of background scenery to top it off. I just noticed that Dan one-upped me by giving the captain twin beard-braids. A very amusing touch! If only we'd given him a spyglass...

We have many more new laffs in the hopper for your enjoyment. In the meantime, please browse the Piraro/Wayno Collaboration Archive.


*In fact, the first time I met Dan there was swordplay involved.

3 comments:

  1. Good one! You must have an interesting thought process to arrive at these gags. Some, like this one, seem so obvious yet have gone undepicted.

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  2. That is a VERY good joke. Perfect combination of image and text.

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  3. Nice joke. Loved it.

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