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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Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
America's Thanksgiving holiday is a mythologized narrative that glosses over centuries of colonialism and brutality. That must be acknowledged, and serves as an example of history that should never be repeated.
Pausing to express gratitude for the people and things in our lives is a solid idea and is good for our own mental well-being. We can do that without forgetting about the less-than-honorable parts of our shared history. Bad examples can serve a purpose, after all.
I'm grateful for decent health, a home, access to regular meals, a loving partner, and family and friends. I'm fortunate to wake up every day to work I enjoy, and to hear from people all over the world who like it (and those who don't).
Speaking directly to you, readers of our comics and our various blogs and newsletters, I say, "thanks."
Thank you for creating and being a part of this weird and wonderful cartoon community.
My brother M (the kid in the middle) took today's agricultural pipe pic in July.
In the true spirit of Magritte's The Treachery of Images, it's not a pipe, but rather a garlic bulb and stalk that M harvested.
I hesitate to call my brother a gardener, since he grows a lot of plants in the yard at his home, so I consider him somewhere between a gardener and a farmer. He grows asparagus and even figs, which were historically difficult to nurture in our region's climate. But things change, don't they.
Thanks to my green-thumbed brother for the fragrant photo.
I hope that some of the week's gags help souls to blossom, or at least produce some chuckles.
We kicked things off with a comic set in Celebrity Block Number Nine.
I reversed the composition for the strip version so the sign is the last item the reader sees. Generally, our eyes follow a Z-shaped path when reading a vertical panel, but travel from the upper-right to the lower-left when reading a horizontal gag.
This image was originally used as the picture sleeve for the punk poultry single "I Don't Want a Holiday in the Spa."
Okay, that was a bit of (harmless) falsified history.
I hadn't planned it, but this post has taken a decidedly agrarian bent.
Of course, these rules go out the window if you're a celebrity promoting your new children's book. Just be sure not to credit whoever actually writes and/or illustrates it.
Friday's panel offered a bit of darkness to mix things up.
Some people never outgrow chicken fingers.
Again, I give thanks to you for checking out my ramblings week after week.
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You can also order t-shirts, hats, and holiday ornaments in King's Bizarro Shop.
Louis Armstrong: "Thanks a Million"
Decca Records, 1936
We'll close with a recording by the most influential musician of all time, and a truly great American.
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