Anything for a Laugh

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

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Greetings from Bizarro Studios North, dear friends.

Today, we're foregoing a lengthy intro, and jumping in with a midcentury pipe pic.

The image was recently posted by a company called Two Communications ("Our Mission: Empower Ham Radio") and brought to my attention by Bizarro reader Gerry J.

A caption identified our subject as Gene Senti, shown demonstrating features of his newly developed KWM-1 SSB/CW transceiver, introduced in 1957.

A tip of the ol' porkpie to Gerry for this fine photo.

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It's time to demonstrate the features of this week's Bizarro gags. I only wish I had a vintage double-breasted suit to wear as I type this entry.

There might be a kernel of truth behind the tricolor character's assumption (if we're being generous.)

Tuesday's panel features one of our favorite surrealists as a child. René Magritte's iconic painting The Son of Man has inspired countless gags drawn by hundreds of cartoonists, so it was a rare treat to come up with one that hasn't been done before (as far as I can determine).

Mike Peterson said some nice things about this gag in his Comic Strip of the Day column at The Daily Cartoonist.

Bizarro wins Costume of the Year, demonstrating that you don’t have to be elaborate, you just have to be clever. The gag evokes a sort of “Well, of course!” laughing response, coupled with a bit of jealousy that you didn’t think of it yourself.

The best costumes generally do.

We enjoyed that review more than a fistful of Skittles. Thank you, Mr. Peterson.

Speaking of cartoon tropes, we shamelessly offered up a fly-in-the-soup gag on Wednesday. 

I can imagine tattoo artists routinely getting requests of this type.

Sometimes one has to indulge one's silly side. A silly joke may even turn out to be my favorite of the week and find itself in the Friday slot.

I also liked it because it was the least complicated strip conversion of the week.

The character in the middle is smiling while pondering how to interpret that statement. It turns out they were cellmates in a federal prison.

That's our latest comedic output. I hope you enjoyed some or all of the above. Thanks for checking them out. 

See you next week.

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Bonus Track 

Wire: "I Am the Fly"
from the album Chairs Missing

Harvest Records UK, 1978

Thanks to former Pittsburgher Timothy P. for mentioning the band Wire in response to Wednesday's gag. The music actually sounds like tiny guitars played by insects.

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