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 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.
The strip layout forced me to relocate a couple Secret Symbols.
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.
See you in December with a new batch of Bizarro.
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Congratulations on the Great Pumpkin pie joke.
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ReplyDeleteI had to read that three times before shaking the impression you are composting this on Wednesday...!
Ha! I see what you mean. Now when I look at it, I hear "composting this pose"
DeleteI enjoyed that old Charlie Brown panel! Thanks for entertaining us for all these years!
ReplyDeleteIt's truly my pleasure!
DeletePoor 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
ReplyDeleteAw, thank you, Jennifer!
DeleteVery close to the bunny...
DeleteAfter reading this dispatch, I suddenly have this strong, bizarre, insatiable urge to purchase some jumping jumper cables … 🤷🏼♂️
ReplyDeleteSounds like a nice gift for somebody!
DeleteThe “Not my first Romeo” toon evoked probably my favorite Bizarro, from several years ago. A young, clean, “rhinestone cowboy” says to a frumpy, dirty, disheveled-looking cow poke: “As a matter of fact, this IS my first rodeo.” Words one never hears anyone say.
ReplyDeleteI saw today was the birthday of Otto Dix and sought some examples of his work which is where I came across this mildly disturbing pipe pic: https://tinyurl.com/5dn75sr3 I don't know its name otherwise I'd simply list that instead of using a link shortener.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's a great one! It's a 1925 painting called "Französisches Ehepaar" (French Couple). I'll definitely share that on the blog in the New Year.
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