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
Greetings from Bizarro Studios North in spooky Hollywood Gardens, Pennsylvania, and welcome to November.
If you have a post-Halloween sugar hangover, take comfort in the fact that Daylight Saving Time ends tonight, and you can sleep for an extra hour tomorrow morning.
Congratulations to all of us for surviving another month in this insane year.
Today's historic pipe pic comes to us courtesy of Bizarro field correspondent Dave F. of Austin, Texas.
Dave wrote:
We just visited Charleston SC which is home to The Citadel, a military academy with a long and interesting history. While touring their museum of student life over the centuries, the attached photo of an anonymous student in his barracks room circa 1900 caught my attention. Hope you like it!
It looks like our anonymous student had a small bottle of champagne on the shelf to his left.
A tip of the winter fedora to Dave F. for taking the time to snap a photo of the photo and send it to us for the blog.
If you ever spot a Bizarro comic in the wild, I'd be grateful for a photo of that, too.
We now present our cartoon output for Halloween week and hope your enjoyment is full-size, not "fun size."
Our guard should apply for a position at the Museum of Malapropisms to get out in front of the probable closure of institutions that dare to present natural history.
Face-painting falls somewhere in the middle.
Or at least it's supposed to be.
Following the commercial success and critical acclaim of Andy Warhol's Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula, there were reportedly plans for a series of Shakespeare adaptations, starting with Andy Warhol's Macbeth. At least that's how I remember it.
Before this one, I don't believe I've done a gag with three characters speaking. I had to be creative with the word balloons for the strip layout.
The panel for Halloween Day combines two of my recurring themes: clowns, and ghosts wearing sheets.
One would assume that in this case, it simply means "a boatload."
Thanks for dropping by. I'll be here again next Saturday with another cartoon recap and whatever else is bouncing around my skull.
Where's Wayno?
I spent a couple of hours visiting a historic building back in September. Can you guess the location?
Read about it in my newsletter (which will be updated a few hours after this blog entry goes live).
Halloween Bonus Track
Louis Armstrong: "The Skeleton in the Closet"
from the film "Pennies from Heaven" (1936)
Here's a last gasp of Halloween from the great Louis Armstrong.
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I loved the clown alien! Seeing the Andy Warhol cartoon reminded me of one of my favorite Tom Paxton songs: Talking Pop Art. https://youtu.be/_tQZJwOb5p0?si=ZuhYMq-1u4rwCmbu
I loved the clown alien! Seeing the Andy Warhol cartoon reminded me of one of my favorite Tom Paxton songs: Talking Pop Art. https://youtu.be/_tQZJwOb5p0?si=ZuhYMq-1u4rwCmbu
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