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.
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Greetings from steamy Hollywood Gardens, PA. Summer weather finally arrived in the greater Pittsburgh area, and unconfirmed reports suggest that your cartoonist might actually have worn short pants once or twice (but only inside the house).
Due to the aftereffects of heat-induced sleep deprivation, I'm cutting the intro short and jumping ahead to a groovy pipe pic. It's a 1965 shot of the late American soul singer Fontella Bass, looking determined and defiant.
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John C., a faithful Bizarro reader from Nipomo, California, spotted the photo on a British music magazine's website and sent it my way.
A tip of the Bizarro stingy-brim to John C. for sharing such a cool photo with us.
In case you're wondering, I was appropriately attired when drawing the latest Bizarro panels.
Visit your favorite online retailer and search for "Items that seem spectacular at first but blow up in an ironic and often tragic manner."
"Also, your résumé says you're only available twelve nights per year."
A possible future for medical research in the US.
There is such a thing as overcompliance.
Friday's panel plays with the visual vocabulary of cartoons, something we enjoy doing from time to time. In 2022, I did a whole week of gags that treated speech balloons and thought bubbles as physical objects visible to the characters in the panels. In that week's blog post, I referred to Mort Walker's 1980 book The Lexicon of Comicana, which defines and names many of the graphic devices used by cartoonists.
The Lexicon has been out of print for years and used copies often sell for big money, but I've heard that a new edition is being released later this year. I think that Bizarro readers would enjoy it.
During the 1967-1968 season, Star Trek experimented with product placement in an episode that was never aired. We were happy to recreate it for you.
Thanks for visiting the old blogeroo. We'll be back in seven days with another fresh batch of words and pictures.
Bonus Track
Fontella Bass: "Rescue Me"
Checker Records, 1965
Ms. Bass sang quite powerfully for a pipe-smoker. Her 1965 single on the Checker Records label topped the R&B charts for four weeks. Although it was composed and recorded in Chicago, the tune gives Motown a run for its money.
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