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While We Were Napping
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

While We Were Napping

A couple of weeks ago, I did a blog post in which I related some of my ruminations about reincarnation. A regular reader left this in the comments…

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Clan of the Bunny
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Clan of the Bunny

This week’s Sunday cartoon (above) is about everyone’s favorite bloodthirsty barbarians: Vikings. Accordingly, I’ll be using this post to dispel some common myths about them…

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Barking Buccaneers
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Barking Buccaneers

I used to be a vocal critic of reincarnation. It always seemed more like wishful thinking than something plausible or logical. But I’ve recently had a change of perspective on it and here’s why…

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Getting the Finger
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Getting the Finger

I’ve drawn (or painted) almost daily since I was a toddler. I’m not religious about it, it just happened as the result of some genetic program I seem to have been born with. And from an early age…

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Designated Drivers
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Designated Drivers

Today I’m going to talk about golf and it won’t be a fluff piece, so if you’re a big fan of this activity some call a “sport” and you cry easily, you may want to skip this post.

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Last Lights
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Last Lights

I sometimes approach these posts with a theme in mind but every now and then, small themes that don’t warrant entire posts of their own mount up, so I do a little housecleaning. This is one such post.

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Kong Monarchy
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Kong Monarchy

Welcome, Jazz Pickles. Thanks for pointing your see-balls at my page today. In this week’s epistle, I will discuss some of the bold fashion choices I have made over the years which now induce in me shame and or nausea…

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Hazards of Reproduction
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Hazards of Reproduction

Spoiler alert: If you read this entire post, you may lose another tiny piece of your childlike wonder, like you did that one year when you found out that one thing about Santa Claus.

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Spud Spouses
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Spud Spouses

We start today with the big news that my capable partner, Wayno, has been nominated by the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) for their Best Newspaper Panel award for 2022. Yay, Wayno! 

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Speaking Accessories
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Speaking Accessories

Today I’ll continue with some thoughts from my wife’s and my recent trip to Europe. I will start with a quote from one of her Instagram posts which eloquently expresses what I had also been feeling.

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Cat Gets Tongue
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Cat Gets Tongue

As I write this, Olive Oyl and I are in a metal tube thirty-five thousand feet above the Atlantic Ocean…

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Endive Alive
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Endive Alive

After two weeks in two of the most popular tourist cities in the world, I am conflicted. The sheer number of people milling about the streets is depressing. They are like a plague of two-hundred-pound gnats, inside and outside of every old building or church. Swatting at them does no good.

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Bolt From the Blue
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Bolt From the Blue

We’ve been in Rome for one week as of today and have been having a wonderful time. I’ve been here a few times before and have always loved this city but this is Olive Oyl’s first time and she is as smitten as a teenager meeting her favorite movie star. I may not be able to get her to leave. 

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Flying High
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Flying High

As I type this on Monday, I’m sitting at the St. Louis airport. I’ve been here for more than five hours and our first flight doesn’t board for another hour—around half an hour from when we were originally scheduled to be at home in Mexico. Overall, American Airlines has decided the best they could do after taking a lot of our money is to turn our 6-hour trip into a full day of misery.

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Pink Gold
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Pink Gold

This week’s Sunday cartoon, above, is an alternative version of the famous German fairytale, Rumplestiltskin. To refresh your memory

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WHAM!
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

WHAM!

That’s my biggest problem with most Internet memes I’ve seen. They spell out the joke so plainly that it kills the humor. In fact, they can even be a little insulting.

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Oops Again
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Oops Again

When my kids were young, we had a little blue and green pet lizard that one of my daughters named Eduardo Lizardo. Once a day, I would catch some flies with a butterfly net and…

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Seuss Suite
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Seuss Suite

The Sunday cartoon above is the third kids’ poem-cum-comic. I’ve mentioned in previous posts how a bunch of weird little poems began coming to me back in the late 90s and how

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