The Cat’s Away
I’m Dan Piraro, the creator of the Bizarro newspaper comic, and this is my weekly blog post. The large Sunday Bizarro comic above is mine, as are the comments below. The past week’s Monday-Saturday Bizarro comics that follow were written and drawn by my partner Wayno, whose weekly blog post I highly recommend.
And here’s this week’s ANSWER KEY to my Sunday comic’s Secret Symbols.
Hello, readers of words and interpreters of images. Thanks for joining me and the other Bizarro Jazz Pickles for whatever this turns out to be.
Today I have good and bad news. (Calm down. I’m exaggerating for comic effect.)
BAD NEWS FIRST: I’m going to discontinue our little Bizarro Shop. It’s always been a meager effort intended for fun much more than profit, but it has become an unnecessary complication to our lives, so we’re going to consign it to the anals of history (not a typo).
GOOD NEWS: To find good homes for our remaining inventory (not much!) we’re having a BIG SALE!
EVERYTHING IS 50 PERCENT OFF WHILE SUPPLIES LAST.
We have some Secret Symbol stickers, some Peyote Cowboy stickers, a few Jazz Pickle koozies, and a handful of Official Bizarro Jazz Pickle embroidered patches left.
50% WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY DEDUCTED FROM YOUR PURCHASE AT CHECKOUT. (Prices shown on shopping pages will be before the discount.)
Peyote Cowboy Stickers
MORE GOOD NEWS: Even after our shop is gone from this site, you’ll still be able to buy Bizarro products from the King Features shop. We’ll likely persuade them to add some new items soon, too. We’ll advertise that here and on Wayno’s weekly blog when we do.
We’ll be closing the whole thing down by the end of this month (March 2025), so grab that schwag while you can!
Let’s grab some chuckles now with Wayno’s Bizarro cartoons from the week…
I’ve often suspected my first two wives may have been praying mantises.
In the past year, I’ve been visiting my folks at the assisted living facility they moved to. The food ain’t spicy, but they have a hell of a bar. If I make it to their age, I’ll start drinking and smoking cigars again for sure.
I suppose ‘twas inevitable.
It’s only defense was to slowly rot their teeth.
May favorite penalty in American football is “Illegal use of hands.” The imagination soars.
I suppose that character’s resemblance to President Musk the Space Nazi is coincidental.
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