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
Today's mysterious pipe pic comes from Bizarro reader Stuart V.
The only information we have about it is that Stuart spotted it "on the backside of a garage, looking out over the countryside in Redmond, Oregon."
I can't decide whether it's whimsical, menacing, or both. Perhaps it was meant to protect the garage it's attached to.
Whatever its origin or purpose, I thank Stuart for the photo, and for not taking offense when I recently did a comic about someone named Stu.
Now, let's look at the cartoons I've been hiding behind for the past week.
Isn't their matching climbing gear adorable?
When I turned in this batch of comics, I spelled the chimp's name as "Cheetah." JB, my tireless editor asked me if it should be spelled without the final "h," and we both spent a fair amount of time researching the correct spelling.
The character never appeared in the Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan books, so that was a dead end.
Credits for the 1932 film Tarzan the Ape Man used Cheeta, who was played by a chimp named Jiggs. Articles in The Washington Post and People Magazine referred to the animal character as Cheetah, as did The New York Times, in the animal's 2012 obituary.
A photo from the funeral only muddied the waters.
The box of ashes is marked Cheetah, and the memorial card says Cheeta.
We decided to go with Cheeta, as credited in the 1932 film. I think that variant looks more like a name anyway.
The poor fellow's only half-awake.
I shuffled more than two dozen titles while working out this gag.
Daria S., who received a Bizarro tee as a birthday gift from her husband Richard says, "On a gorgeous autumn day, my jazz pickle and I take in the sights of Saint John, New Brunswick on the shores of the Bay of Fundy."
Bizarro Jazz Pickle, Pipe of Ambiguity, and Irön Bunnies öf Dööm shirts are available in assorted colors from the Comics Kingdom Bizarro Collection.
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