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
Benjamin Franklin
Today's upstanding pipe pic was submitted by Michael K., who snapped it at Victory General Store in Stamford, NY. It's actually a bud vase.
Like a lot of these villages and hamlets in the Catskills, the stores come and go. Victory has no telephone listed online and no e-mail address. But it's a cute little place filled with things like pipes that are not pipes.
On to the funny stuff.
This cartoon is a work of fiction, created to set up a punning caption. We like the friendly people in our cool little neighborhood.
Surprisingly, the largest Secret Symbol in this panel proved to be the last one most people spotted. We received many nice comments from readers who fondly recall spending hours assembling cassette compilations.
Side note: Today's newsletter will include a digital "mixtape" consisting entirely of items from my personal record collection.
Bizarro reader Marbel C. strikes a heroic pose in his official Jazz Pickle tee, and says "Great shirt! Thanks!"
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That's the blog for this week. Pardon my opening sermon, but this election is important for the future of all of us.
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According to the Huckabee woman governor of Alabama, children are supposed to keep women 'humble'. As I never had any, I guess I'm whatever the opposite of 'humble' is, and I'm proud of it!
ReplyDeleteWell said, Andréa!
DeleteHar, several laff-out-louds again this week. Serious question: In the Disturbia frame, is the ice cream cone a Secret Symbol? Google's AI overview says it's one of them ("ice cream cone, eyeball, rabbit, alien, crown, dynamite, arrow, fish tail, upside down bird, and the abbreviation "K2""; however, it doesn't appear on Bizarro's official Secret Symbols page. Anyhow, thanks for the first good horse laugh of the morning!
ReplyDeleteJust goes to show that AI returns "hallucinations." There's no ice cream Secret Symbol!
DeleteHooboy. Heh, well, thanks for setting me str8!
DeleteThe mixtape comic reminded me of the hours I used to spend compiling and recording mix tapes for myself and friends before graduating to burning CD’s and downloading to iPods.
ReplyDeleteSame here, Joe!
DeleteAs a ukulele player I appreciate the Uke references!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Judi! Glad to know you're also a ukist!
DeleteHere's a clip you might enjoy:
https://youtu.be/zERj1yZ0YHA?si=gPcrIOs9wEqgXqy6