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
Hello from the Little Shop of Humor in Hollywood Gardens, PA. We're still sweltering here, and your cartoonist is currently juggling a few too many metaphorical balls, so I'll spare you a lengthy intro this time around.
Bizarro buddy Gerry J. from the City of Missed Left Turns (also known as Albuquerque, NM) had the presence of mind to grab today's pipe pic from his television screen back in February.
Thanks to Gerry for the fun image. Could you also send me some temperatures from February?
The section on due process should probably use stick figures to help members of certain quarters grasp the concept.
I reversed the staging for the strip layout, which allowed me to place the word balloon and caption box on the same end of the composition. Otherwise, there would have been no room for the characters.
Microsoft's "Clippy" is afraid of showing his age.
Wednesday's gag is for my brother M., who retired from a long career in research and development, and recently assumed new responsibilities as president of his local bocce league. They play by more traditional rules. That includes a bottle of grappa at each game, doesn't it?
I also reversed this one for the strip layout, which gives it a slightly different feel and, I think, an extra measure of absurdity. Plus, I had room to show the pallino.
Sometimes, transcendence comes with a cup of coffee. I like to imagine that Bill Griffith's Zippy the Pinhead occupies a nearby stool.
Greek mythology meets modern technology. Fortunately, Medusa only has a free Zoom account. Unfortunately, that still means she can fossilize up to 99 participants.
This is what happens when your psychologist has a minor in existentialist philosophy.
That's our blog for Week 26. We're halfway through the year!
I hope you'll return next week for a new batch of gags and commentary.
Bonus Track
The Beach Boys: "Pet Sounds"
From the Pet Sounds album
Capitol Records, 1966
Capitol Records, 1966
Brian Wilson, the troubled genius behind the Beach Boys, died a couple of weeks ago, and I've had this composition of his in my head off and on since I first heard the news.
Wilson is the only member of the band who performs on the song, playing grand piano and accompanied by some of the ace musicians who came to be known as the Wrecking Crew. Wilson originally wrote it in the hope that it would be used as a theme for a James Bond movie.
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Nice mix of ideas in the week's cartoons. Thanks for the Pet Sounds video. Back when it was new, I used to skip over this cut on the album because I thought it was weird. No words.
ReplyDeleteParticularly great week of your cartoons!
ReplyDeleteLooking for to your visit!
You didn’t need those troglodytes who disparaged your correct lambasting of our present administration…. Keep it up
ReplyDeleteHey, Wayno! Rey much in your corner on your right to express your opinions. Staying with you and gathering new folks to find your humour. Stay sane. 😂
ReplyDeleteWayno, I agree with the others that you have a right to express your opinions. For those that dropped off--GOOD RIDDANCE! You are better off without their narrow-minded views.
ReplyDeleteLove your work! Keep it up.
I was going to add a pic of me at the Torrance, California, June 14th No Kings gathering, but couldn''t see how to do that. Imagine a photo here of me in my anti orange hat.
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