Puppy Perp
Welcome to this tiny speck of this universe, viewer. I hope the time you spend here will add positively to your life in some way, or at least be neutral. If it ruins your life, please let me know how I might avoid causing that in future posts.
The majority of you who read the words between the cartoons here know that I have written a pretty long graphic novel called “Peyote Cowboy” that I am serially posting online as I illustrate it. It’s free for anyone to read. When I’m finished, I will try to get it published as a book or series of them, but that will be a while yet.
I always refer to it as a “long” story because it came to me, as opposed to it coming from me, so I just kept writing until the story decided it was done. It turned out much longer than I’d bargained for and now that I’m illustrating it, I’m realizing it will take a few years to finish. I could go faster by simplifying the style of art, but that’s not what the story wants so I trudge forward on the path I have charted. I’m sometimes sorry that the story is developing so slowly, but then most of life these days happens too fast to fully take in, so maybe think of following my novel as I create it as a way to slow down and experience what it is to be an artisan. (Obviously, many many many of my readers are creative and artisans. I’m just saying if you want to sort of play along at home, this is maybe a fun way to think about it.)
Does this have anything to do with this week’s Sunday cartoon, above? Kind of. If you’ll notice the portable sign in the background, far right, you’ll see it says “PEYCOW,” which has become my nickname for my novel. Furthermore, if you’ve acquainted yourself with the story at all, you may recall that one of the main characters is called “Cabeza”. Now notice the byline under my signature. Yes, it’s a reference to the character in my story, but only sort of.
Some years ago, I became e-pals with a guy who called himself (online) “Richard Cabeza”. The basic idea for the above Bizarro cartoon was his suggestion, so I gave him a byline. As a student of Spanish and someone who used to be an adolescent boy, I thought his pseudonym was hilarious and clever so I asked if I could borrow it for a character someday and he agreed.
If you’d like to see what I’ve been up to with that project, here’s the episodes page. Scroll to the bottom to start at the beginning.
If you like it so much you’d like to help support my offering it for free online while I draw it, you can do that here.
If you just like it and want me to email you whenever a new episode is posted, you can sign up for that here. No need to worry; I would never betray the trust of a Peyote Cowpoke by sharing their email address.
Now we move on to find out what trails Wayno has been trudging in this week’s Bizarro cartoons…
I’ll bet it did. It’s always the meek and bow-tied that end up being talked about by their neighbors on the evening news.
If you’re keeping score at home, this one holds the record among Bizarro cartoons for the most white rectangles.
It would seem that hanging with one’s peeps isn’t always an innocent activity.
Lots of readers had things to say about the two standing characters in this cartoon and in his cartoon blog post this week, Wayno answers them with his typical grace. Read all about it here.
I’m reminded of the expression, "drinks like a fish out of water in a tux”.
Wayno and I always clearly label our bags of money so they don’t accidentally get thrown out with the trash.
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