Dan Piraro 6/23/24 Dan Piraro 6/23/24

Go Costume!

When my kids were small, I took them to Disney World and that place is crawling with big, foam-rubber characters altering the reality and future expectations of countless children. That was when I first started thinking about the people inside those things. (The character costumes, not the children.)

Dan Piraro 6/16/24 Dan Piraro 6/16/24

This is Not Magritte

Both Wayno and I have drawn numerous cartoons inspired by his work and it wasn’t until I picked up my (digital, inkless, electronic) pen to write this post that I realized why: surrealism and (our kind of) cartoons are two approaches to the same thing.

Dan Piraro 6/9/24 Dan Piraro 6/9/24

Sibling Quibbling

I once read that even though it can be brutal, sibling rivalry is completely natural. While our parents are our lifeline, our siblings are the opposite—competitors for resources. If there’s not enough food for the whole family, the more selfish or aggressive offspring eats while the other goes hungry or gets left in the forest…

Dan Piraro 6/8/24 Dan Piraro 6/8/24

A Conversation with my “They”

A story about one of my kids emerging from a closet I didn’t know they were in.

Dan Piraro 6/2/24 Dan Piraro 6/2/24

Delicious Death Wish

I’ve spent a fair amount of time over the years trying to understand nutrition and have come to a conclusion: Conclusions are pointless. At least for now…

Dan Piraro 5/26/24 Dan Piraro 5/26/24

Shoes Your Poison

Today’s cartoon is about the “Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.” Like many children’s rhymes and stories, it’s been sanitized a bit over time. The third and fourth line, which I’d never heard before I researched it for this post, take the story in a whole other direction.

Dan Piraro 5/19/24 Dan Piraro 5/19/24

Big Head Cure

The expression “shrink” is short for “head shrinker,” which I suppose is a reference to certain cannibalistic tribes who shrunk the heads of their enemies…