Saturday, November 09, 2024

Been There, Dumped That

This is the weekly dispatch from Bizarro Studios North, where I have been writing and drawing the Monday through Saturday Bizarro comics since 2018. My partner and friend Dan Piraro created Bizarro in the late twentieth century and continues to do the Sunday comic from Rancho Bizarro in Mexico.

Wayno

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all―the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller

Tuesday was wall-to-wall blue skies and 78-degree sunshine in my neighborhood. What a contrast to Wednesday's appropriate air of gloomy gray. 

I'm writing this post on Wednesday, weary from a sleepless night spent worrying for the safety of us all, so it will be briefer than usual.


Bizarro reader Linda M. suggested today's pipe pic, a 1905 Picasso painting titled Boy With a Pipe.

We could have used this a couple of weeks ago, to accompany a gag referencing Picasso.


Old Pablo did quite a few paintings of pipe smokers. Google at your own risk.


Thanks to Linda for the suggestion, which also reminds me that art connects us and appreciating art is an act of empathy, something in short supply in these times.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. 

Claude Monet



We hope that our humble form of art helps provide some respite from unwelcome news.



He was positively glowing in his mug shot.


"What do you want first―the bad news or the inexplicable news?"


No political subtext was intended.


Inheritance tax takes various forms.

A tip of the old Bizarro porkpie to Instagrammer Becky G. for her comment which became the title for this post.


As usual, my favorite gag of the week is in the Friday slot. 

The struggle is real.


Kevin has obviously been in a restaurant before.

Jazz Pickle Spotted in Seattle



Our latest t-shirt model is a Jazz Pickle who goes by the nom de pan PlatePilot, because he's an avid cook. He clearly has excellent taste in clothing as well.

PlatePilot tells us that some of his jazz musician friends have asked where they can get BJP shirts. If they do,we hope to see photos. 


Would you like to be a Bizarro fashion model? Send your t-shirt picture, along with a comment, to WaynoCartoons(at)gmail(dot)com.


Fine print: By sending your photo, you permit us to share it online. Readers will be identified by first name only. We truly appreciate your purchase of Bizarrowear!



Thank you for reading and supporting the cartoon arts.


See you next week with more of this sort of thing.


Bonus Track

Resistance Revival Chorus w/Rhiannon Giddens
"All You Fascists Bound to Lose"
Righteous Babe Records, 2020




A spirited version of a Woody Guthrie classic.

A Plethora of Bizarro Paraphernalia


  

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11 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:55 PM

    Thank you for replenishing my morning cup of liberal tears.

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    1. Wayno12:46 PM

      You're more than welcome to refrain from reading.

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    2. Wayno1:00 PM

      ...and to be so courageously anonymous.

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    3. Anonymous8:31 PM

      Well said

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  2. Anonymous6:19 PM

    I so identified with the cartoon with the full garage and the need to rent a dumpster.

    My hubby and I had been clearing out our house, garage, and storage shed for a few months now. It’s not really “death cleaning” but it almost is. We have been non-sentimental about throwing stuff out or donating it. Might as well do it now than to assign the task to some poor soul later after we are gone.

    I have a couple of siblings and a couple of close cousins. They have their own collections of photos and nostalgic items. They don’t need mine.

    My husband doesn’t have any siblings left. He has a couple of cousins he is sort of close to but they don’t need his stuff so out it goes.

    As a result, we now know what we have and where it is.

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    1. Wayno12:40 PM

      Good for you! We've dealt with a couple of houses full of "stuff."

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  3. Anonymous10:40 PM

    I have sent the cartoon of the full garage to our adult children. So far no response!

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    1. Wayno12:40 PM

      Well, you've given them fair warning.

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  4. David Oyster8:30 AM

    Yes Kevin….you are the reason we don’t have kids🤪

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  5. tennisjazz8:47 PM

    Thanks for a great Bizarro jazz week!
    R.I.P. Benny Golson last week of course. What great names in your intro list -- Jon Faddis, Clark Terry, Larry Coryell, Herbie Mann and on and on.

    On that Coltrane recording, Lee Morgan was born in Philadelphia, Coltrane moved there from North Carolina after high school, Paul Chambers was born in Pittsburgh, and guess where Philly Joe Jones came from :-) I swear that my favourite kind of jazz, bop, was born and raised in Philadelphia PA in the 50's and 60's, praise be.
    Bill Birney

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    1. Wayno2:19 PM

      Thank you, Bill!

      Your taste is impeccable.

      And, yes, RIP to Benny Golson and now Lou Donaldson too.

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