Reboots Are Made For Moshing

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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Let's all pitch in and do our thing, make a better world to live in.

Earl King (1934-2003)

I'm trying to maintain a positive attitude in this portentous year. It's all too easy to become discouraged and lose hope for the human race. Earl King's song "Let's Make a Better World" was first recorded by Dr. John in 1974, and I've always loved it. For the past few years, my musical group has closed out every performance and rehearsal with our version of the song. Some may find the lyrics to be corny, but King's message about doing what we can to help and support others in our own neighborhood makes a lot of sense, and is an eloquent expansion of the familiar phrase "Think globally, act locally."

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Our pipe pic is a 1967 self-portrait by illustrator/cartoonist Bob Clarke (1926-2013).

Clarke had a long career doing advertising illustration and design work. His most widely seen creation was probably the label for Cutty Sark whisky.

More importantly (to me, anyway), Clarke was a contributor to MAD from 1956 to 2010. I found the self-portrait on my colleague Mike Lynch's excellent blog about cartoon art and the cartooning business. Thanks, Mike!

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Speaking of the cartoon biz, here are the Bizarro gags for the second week of this shiny new year.

This ran the morning after the 2024 Golden Globe Awards, but it was a coincidence rather than planning on my part.

Tuesday's gag was inspired by the peculiar language of real estate.

If this fashion mashup ever comes to be, remember where you saw it first.

The strip layout stumped me until I realized I could get away with cropping the customer at her shoulders.

I said I was trying to maintain a positive outlook, not that I was succeeding at it.

Your cartoonist admits to feeling queasy when drawing Friday's gag, and even worse when coloring it, but I powered through the nausea because I care.

I don't have the data at hand, but I believe I've poked fun at Batman more than any other comic book superhero. I'd guess that Spider-Man would come in a distant second.

And just like that, another week of cartoonery has passed.

Take care of yourselves, and choose your footwear responsibly. See you next Saturday with gags involving lemmings, trees, pasta sauce, mice, cats, and coffee.

Thank you, as always, for your readership and support.

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Bonus Track

The Red Beans & Rice Combo:
"Let's Make a Better World"

From the album Breaking Up the House.

Bonedog Records, 2023

Please excuse the additional hyping of our new CD. We're trying to recover the cost of licensing the songs so they can be distributed legally. If you'd like to help with that effort, you can buy the disc here.

It's also available on all of the usual streaming platforms and is downloadable from Apple Music, Amazon, and other retailers of digital music.

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