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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 whose weekly blog post I recommend highly.
And here’s this week’s ANSWER KEY to the Secret Symbols.
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Hello again, reader. I’ve got a few unrelated things to talk about today.
The first is that the cops in the cartoon above are named after two of my good friends here in Mexico, John and Fred. Hi, guys! Neither of them are cops or look like the characters I drew, but they both claim to read my blog posts each week and this is a good way to find out if they’ve been lying.
Next, I sometimes recommend books, movies, or TV series and readers have thanked me for it so here’s another one. On Netflix right now is a movie called El Conde, which means “The Count.” It’s very strange, very creative, and beautifully art-directed and filmed. Though it is dubbed in English, the actors doing the voices are exceptionally good and I didn’t find it nearly as distracting as dubbing usually is. (I no longer notice if the lips don’t match perfectly because I have to watch all TV with subtitles.)
The film takes place after the death of the former dictator of Chile, Augusto Pinochet as he lives on as a vampire. It isn’t a perfect script but overall, Olive Oyl and I enjoyed it mucho. If you like odd films, I recommend it.
Lastly, there’s a documentary 3-part series on HBO Max called Telemarketers. Watch the whole thing if you like but the big takeaway for me was that those super common phone calls we all used to get in the U.S. in the 1990s asking you to support your local cops, the highway patrol, the sheriff’s department, etc., were all a scam. I gave money to them several times, half believing if I had one of those stickers on my car I might get preferential treatment for one of my many moving violations. What a dope!
No kidding, somebody got enormously rich off of those calls and they went on for many years before getting shut down, then somebody else started doing it, apparently. It’s a weird story.
Neither Wayno nor I will call you pretending to be law enforcement fundraisers, but we will ask that you help support our posting all of our work online for free (with no pop-up ads or clickbait!) by checking out our links at the end of this post.
Without further ado, here’s this week’s Bizarro cartoons by Wayno…
Just another example of why correct spelling matters.
If he turns around and runs down the hill, the rock with hip hop after him.
I love that Weird Mammal comic book and so did a cartoonist friend of Wayno’s. He features her drawing of the entire character on his blog post this week. Don’t miss it!
No, the adult ones are totally real.
This has been fun but I need to be charged with battery again.
Not to mention what it did upon exiting.
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