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
Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me!
Charles Schulz
In addition to being Cinco de Mayo, Tuesday was National Cartoonists Day (shouldn't that have an apostrophe somewhere?). Most of us in the profession probably celebrated by working on new material, and maybe having an extra cup of coffee.
It's nice to know that Schulz, possibly the most successful cartoonist of all time, lost sleep over nagging worries just like the rest of us.
We should also remember the words of Popeye the Sailor Man:
A comic artist ain't no different than you or me excep' he knows how to draw pitchers an is crazy in the head.
What can one add other than, "I yam what I yam"?
Today's pipe pic is the cover of a 1954 Bing Crosby coloring book.
Crosby was a hugely famous performer in the early to mid-twentieth century, but were kids really clamoring for a coloring book? Who knows?
One interior page, showing Bing's four sons behind him, dressed in choir robes, bears the caption "Softly, boys." I can't find a high-resolution image to share here, but that may be for the best.
Let's see what Bizarro had to offer for the week of Cartoonists Day.
The customer replied, "Oh, do you mean the tattoo?"
The cow is impressive; "Grazing in the Grass" is a bold choice, and would be challenging to sing even with a karaoke machine teleprompter.
Sometimes lying awake isn't so bad after all.
Every irrational fear has a name.
Naturally, sermon-writing AI platforms already exist.
Instead of apologizing for this caption, I'll refer you to the aforementioned Popeye quote.
That's the latest from Bizarro Studios North. I wish you a groovy weekend.
Bonus Track
Ronald Jansen Heijtmajer "Saxophobia"
from Fingerbustin'
Eigen Wijs Recordings (1995)
A Trove of Bizarro Trash & Treasure
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