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
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Thomas Jefferson
Tomorrow, December 21, is the Winter Solstice, the day with the shortest period of daylight and the longest night of the year. It has certainly been a very dark year, but Solstice reminds us that darkness will dissipate and offers hope for enlightenment to overcome ignorance.
As 2025 draws to a close, I wish us all a bright Solstice and a better New Year.
This week's pipe pic is a seasonally-appropriate shot of Frank Zappa.
I believe this image originally appeared on a promotional card from Barfko-Swill, the mail-order business Gail Zappa established in the 1980s.
This week's gags include a couple of appearances by Saint Nick. I held out as long as I could.
Fortunately, he can move his own name to the Nice List.
I was, of course, making a pun on the word "s'mores," but when I looked at this after uploading it, it sounded a bit naughty.
Some guys never stop overcompensating.
A tip of the winter fedora to my friend Tim P, whose comment on this panel provided the title for today's blog.
In real life, I've only been asked one of these.
Surely this now exists as an app.
That's the blog for this week. Thanks for stopping by.
I expect to get the next two installments out as scheduled, although the year-end crunch and a scheme to take a few days off may result in less commentary, which some may see as a relief.
Whatever holidays you may celebrate, I hope you're among people you love and who love you.
Still Flogging That Merch
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Bonus Track
The Ramsey Lewis Trio: "Merry Christmas, Baby"
From Sound of Christmas
Argo Records, 1961
Bountiful Bizarro Booty
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