Happy (nearly) Halloween and Day of the Dead, Jazz Pickles. Though they are related, there are fundamental differences between the U.S. holiday of Halloween and that of Dia de Los Muertos in Mexico…

Hello and welcome. Today’s essay is about my interest in psychedelic substances.

Bienvenidos, amigos y Pepinillos de Jazz. First on the agenda today is a hearty thanks from my buddy, Dave, about whom I wrote in my previous post last week…

Saludos, Jazz Pickles. I hope you’ve had a good week. Mine included celebrating my birthday. Thus far, I’ve been having a birthday once a year but I think I may do it less frequently. It seems to be making me older a little faster than I’d prefer…

Since I’m actively trying to learn a second language, people often tell me that watching Mexican TV can be a good way to learn Spanish. Your results may vary, but I have not found that to be true at all for several reasons. The first is that Mexican TV…

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.

Wayno and I have received numerous emails from readers this week about Bizarro having disappeared from their local newspaper. Sadly, it is true.

Since much of the Bizarro-reading world is still baking in the heat of another routine climate-change summer, or, as some Republicans are still calling it, “an extremely convincing and deadly hoax,” I thought you might enjoy a refreshing snow cartoon…

Today’s Sunday Bizarro cartoon is one of those that rewards careful readers. It is also a testament to how changing one letter in a familiar phrase can completely change its meaning and lead to a chuckle.

Today’s Sunday cartoon (above) is perhaps the tenth or twelfth edition of this unusual word puzzle format that my good friend, Cliff Harris The King of Wordplay devised. SPOILER ALERT: The answers to the three puzzles above are in bold at the end of this little mini-essay.

I’m thoroughly convinced that time is an illusion but somehow, within that illusion, my eldest daughter will turn 40 this coming week. That has put me in a reflective mood so as I type, I’ve no idea where this post is going to go today.

This week’s Sunday cartoon (above) says it has 11 Secret Symbols but I just created an answer key for it and I see that it has 12. Sorry about that.

This week’s Bizarro cartoons.

Bienvenue, Pickles de Jazz. (French!)Thanks for stopping by. I’ve decided to start a new feature today, which will mean a little more work for me but we’ll see how it goes.

The most difficult part about making this week’s Real Housewives cartoon was having to research the Real Housewives franchise to get a feel for what it should look like. Honestly, what is surreal to me is how so many people…

Today’s cartoon features one of tens (hundreds?) of thousands of unfortunate cartoon souls who are stranded on a tiny, one-tree island for eternity.

Visiting the U.S. these days can be an emotionally-charged experience, especially over the Independence Day holiday. While we were there, between July 2 and July 9, there were 25 mass shootings; twenty-two people died, 138 were injured.

It’s difficult not to notice how many people in positions of dubious authority wear big, crazy hair. I’ve not made a scientific study of this but…

This week’s Sunday comic (above) is a familiar theme for both Wayno and me. Although we each have done metric shitloads of tattoo jokes, however, only one of us actually has any tattoos. Can you guess which of us it is? I’ll reveal the answer at the end of this mini-essay.