Graphic Palindromes
Greetings, Jazz Pickles! It’s been one of those weeks that made all but the most delusional among us feel like we were being forced to watch a trashy reality TV show. And sadly, that’s not far from the truth.
It is said that (non-political) cartoonists shouldn’t express their political opinions, lest they alienate half their audience. I’ll just say that if anyone who considers themself a fan of Bizarro thinks that the assault on the U.S. Capitol was anything but abhorrent, stop following me now. Good riddance.
To the rest of you, I say let’s pull together and figure out a way to outlaw the kind of hate speech and outright lying that led to the coup attempt. I mean, if I believed the stuff these folks believe, I might storm a government building, too. (Well, no I wouldn’t, but that’s not the point.) The point is, you can’t individually convince anyone of anything, but communities can convince virtually anyone of virtually anything. It’s how our brains are wired. We require the approval of our tribe more than we require truth.
The only reason you and I are rational (if you are) is because we live among rational beings and expose ourselves to rational thought. If you were for some reason to immerse yourself in irrational bullshit of almost any kind for long enough, you’d start to believe that irrational bullshit and defend it to the death. Unfortunately, this is the thing Internet algorithms are best at; putting each of us in a feedback loop.
I truly didn’t want to make this post about politics AT ALL. But on a week like this, how do you just go on being flippant and amusing without at least mentioning that your country of birth is on fire? You sort of can’t.
To change the subject completely, when I wrote the above cartoon, I meant to use it on the weekend that Wayno was announcing the reveal of the new Secret Symbol, The Pipe of Ambiguity. He was planning and coordinating the whole deal and keeping me in the loop with emails. Typical of me, though, I read one of them wrong and thought he wasn’t going to announce it until this weekend, for some reason. This is why I’m not an air traffic controller or a structural engineer; I tend not to get numbers right.
I think it’s time to see what Wayno got right in this week’s Bizarro cartoons. Please follow me in an orderly fashion, without stealing podiums or pissing on carpets…
I know. How despicable, amoral oligarchs are raised isn’t as funny as it used to be.
I know. Narcissism isn’t as funny as it used to be.
This cartoon makes me glad I didn’t get my vasectomy in the Old West.
Keep in mind, ma’am, that a house made of candy will attract exponentially more roaches as it will children.
I usually get really high before I go to a doctor. Especially a dentist.
For a less-wordy but more amusing post about this batch of cartoons, pop over to Wayno’s weekly cartoon blog post. He also features a very dapper photo of himself in the last century wearing his fave shirt on school picture day!
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