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Spotty Talent
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Spotty Talent

Since my last post, I “celebrated” my sixty-fifth birthday. Milestones like this seem important to us somehow, even though we know that there is no single moment when a gradual thing like aging occurs…

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Wisdom of the Aged
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Wisdom of the Aged

As a child, I dreamed of doing so for what seemed a millennium. I yearned for the myriad freedoms of adulthood: choosing your own bedtime, spending money however you like, wearing whatever you want, buying booze, skipping church forever…

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King Korpse
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

King Korpse

Hello again, reader. I’ve got a few unrelated things to talk about today. First up, those cops in my cartoon.

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Tomb of the Unknown Cat
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Tomb of the Unknown Cat

This week’s Sunday chuckle-picture is based on an idea from Wayno’s and my good buddy and fellow cartoonist, Jim Horwitz. 

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Safety Third
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Safety Third

Hola, Jazz Pickles. My philosophical side is acting up again this week and I feel like sharing a couple of things that I find meaningful…

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Funny Bones
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Funny Bones

I rarely know what I’m going to write about in these posts until I sit down Sunday morning to do it. In this case, however, I’ve been hankering all week to tell you about a new TV series that is blowing our minds in a big way. 

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How Mad?
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

How Mad?

I’ll use this week’s post to proudly announce my wife’s new website: Christy Higgin’s Art & Writing. Until now, she’s been known to readers of this blog as “Olive Oyl,” and as the inspiration behind the O2 in my list of Secret Symbols. Now that she is “coming out of the closet” as an artist, you can get to know the mujer behind the myth…

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Podge & Hodge
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Podge & Hodge

Bienvenido, Jazz Pickles. This week’s post is a hodgepodge of super-important things…

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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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