Merry Terrier
I’m Dan Piraro, the creator of the Bizarro newspaper comic. Each week, I post my Sunday Bizarro comic, then a short essay, then the past week’s Monday-Saturday Bizarro comics written and drawn by my partner, Wayno. He does a weekly blog post, too, and I highly recommend it.
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Welcome, Jazz Pickles, to my cartoon vestibule. I refer, of course, to this specific part of my weekly posts where I write without drawing.
Once you leave here, you’ll enter the Hall of Humor, filled once again with the Bizarro cartoons that my partner (in the professional sense, not the sexual sense) Wayno has created this week. Wayno’s official title is “Haberdasher of Humor” and I, as the founder of the Bizarro “Empire” (current legal restrictions do not allow me to use that word in this context without including quotation marks to signify that it is not remotely true) am the Commander in Chief of Chucklry, although those closest to me usually call me Debby. (I used to go by Deborah but I insisted on the stress being placed on the “o,” which few people seem to be able to manage so I switched to Debby.)
When I sit down to write these little vestibule mini-essays each week (or “blabber bites” as I call them) I never know what they’re going to be about until I dive into it. Today’s theme—or “titillation topic” as we refer to it here at Rancho Bizarro—seems to be our system of cartoon nomenclature, or “Laugh Lingo” as we are fond of referring to it.
Before we move on to the Hall of Humor to see what tomfoolery (or Waynofoolery in this case) my partner (see above) has been up to of late, have a look at a closeup of the bulletin board above, which I have thoughtfully included below.
I don’t know what I’d have done during the pandemic lockdowns without my weekly Zoom massage.
And now, on to the week’s whatchamacallits…
Unfortunately, a flattop is the only hairstyle available for poor Frank.
Pie ahoy!
Wayno got busted by readers for drawing a spider with only six legs. He offers an explanation in his weekly blog post, which is worth reading even if you don’t buy his excuse. He also mentions a 13-year anniversary that he and I share! Congratulations to us!
Why do pirates always wear poisonous hats?
Just be thankful he’s not a Kenny-G Hound.
There’s a “smells like carrots” joke in here somewhere but damned if I can find it.
And that’s the total contents of this week’s Wackytime Fun Box, Jazz Pickles. Thanks for digging with us for the prize. If you’ve enjoyed yourself (or anyone esle’s self) while reading, please consider helping us keep this site ad- and plague-free via one of the links below. We will think kindly of you for as long as we can manage.
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