A Little Help
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 also does a weekly blog post, and I highly recommend it.
Here’s the ANSWER KEY to this week’s Sunday comic, above.
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Bienvenidos, Jazz Pickles. Thanks for pointing your see-balls at us once again.
Olive Oyl and I have a couple of good things to report this week. For starters, we adopted a terrific dog that we’ve fallen in love with. Lucy is just under two years old and she is a mixture of god-knows-what and probably some kind of tall, skinny, pointy-nosed, fast-running dog like a greyhound.
She was rescued off the streets as a puppy and has been living in a shelter enclosure ever since. As a result, she is very timid, affectionate, and grateful to have been paroled. Pretty much everything she encounters other than food, water, concrete, and chainlink fencing is brand new to her and we’ve had a ball watching her discover the world.
We take both of our dogs (we adopted Monita off the streets here six years ago when she was just a few months old) to a big piece of land just outside of town each morning and walk the trails and fields there off leash. During the first couple of visits, Lucy sort of gingerly sniffed and poked around, barely keeping up with our leisurely walking pace. But by the third day, she started to trot and gallop a bit and now, after a week, she’ll go nuts and break into a full-speed run now and then. We think she is literally learning to run and it’s been a joy to watch her discover what her body can do. We’re very happy to have brought her into our pack and after a few days of snobbery and jealousy, Monita likes her new sister, too.
The other bit of fun news is that Peyote Cowboy won an award from the National Cartoonists Society for the best long-form online comic.
I’ll be honest and say I have mixed feelings about awards in the arts and I have no doubt that my graphic novel is not the best long-form comic online, but I am honored to have been chosen by my fellow cartoonists. Thanks, folks!
As my regular readers know, Peyote Cowboy is a graphic novel I have finished writing and am currently illustrating. Because I don’t want to wait until the entire story is illustrated to share it, I’ve been posting it online as I finish the drawings for each scene. You can follow it for free at PeyoteCowboy.net. If you’d like to help support this project, I’d be mightily infused with joy. You can look into that and see my heartfelt video about it here. (scroll down)
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Now let’s all get to chucklin’ at Wayno’s Bizarro cartoons from the week…
You should see the dead skin all over her pillowcase.
I’m pretty sure there’s a frog-licking joke in there somewhere but I’m going to leave it.
When you chew the cud, the cud chews back.
I often forget how much a matching cape can dress up a pair of underwear.
He’s inside the actor’s studio, of course.
Thus concludes our parade of comedy criminals, Jazz Pickles. Thanks for sticking around until the jury was declared hung. If you dig our funky groove and appreciate the lack of ads and clickbait, please consider helping us keep it that way via one of the links below. We will permanently take you off of our blacklist in gratitude.
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