Saturday, November 30, 2024

Famous for 15 Minutes per Pound

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


Despite all that we have to be angry or worried about, I'm pausing to remember all that I'm grateful for: friends, family, overall good health, and being able to draw every day for a fabulous cartoon community.

I'm composing this post on Wednesday and hoping to take a few days away from the computer, so I'll try to be brief.

If you celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope yours was all you'd wished for.


Today's pipe picture comes from Bizarro reader Ruth Ann H. She shot it from her TV screen while watching Mighty Trains on the Smithsonian Channel.



The photo made me wonder if kids near the tracks made that whistle-pulling gesture at the engineer. I hope so.


Thanks for the photo, Ruth Ann!



Now, let's count the turkeys among this week's Bizarro gags.



This customer brings new meaning to "fast food."



The strip layout forced me to relocate a couple Secret Symbols.



Even tented aluminum foil can have a silver lining.



Turkeys aren’t great at differentiating between literalness and idiom.



Our Thanksgiving Day gag nods to Charles Schulz, Halloween, and forgotten comic strip characters. I had to do homework to figure out who to draw with Linus and decided on Truffles, who appeared in Peanuts between 1975 and 1977. She was the romantic interest of both Linus and Snoopy. I had no recollection of the character, but the internet remembers everything.


When I see Greek earthenware, I wonder if the figures can talk to each other. Cartoonists' brains are uniquely wired.


Over the centuries, the expression changed, but this is its original phrasing. 

That's it for another week of humorous words and pictures from your cartoonist. No turkeys were harmed in the making of these cartoons.

As always, I'm thankful for your readership and support.


See you in December with a new batch of Bizarro.


Bonus Track

Melvin Sparks: "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"
From the LP, Sparks!
Prestige Records, 1970



Melvin Sparks delivers a spirited take on the Sly Stone classic.

May we all have the freedom to be ourselves at all times.

Bizarro Bonanza


  

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8 comments:

  1. Michael Johnson11:42 AM

    Congratulations on the Great Pumpkin pie joke.

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  2. Mitch412:40 PM

    "I'm composing this post on Wednesday [...]"
    I had to read that three times before shaking the impression you are composting this on Wednesday...!

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    1. Wayno2:21 PM

      Ha! I see what you mean. Now when I look at it, I hear "composting this pose"

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  3. Judi12:42 PM

    I enjoyed that old Charlie Brown panel! Thanks for entertaining us for all these years!

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  4. Anonymous2:06 PM

    Poor Linus. Now he also has to contend with pumpkin spice lattes every time he wants to buy a coffee. Thanks for doing what you do and brightening the world one cartoon at a time! Jennifer B

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