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Bijlert, Leonardo, parody magnets, and the Priapic-Apollonian opposition
The July 26th opening ceremonies for the Paris Olympic games included a tableau — of drag queens posed as presiding over a banquet — that vaguely resembled Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper painting:...
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Toto, Tonto, let’s call the whole thing off
Today’s Dan Piraro Bizarro, in three panels: an odd title panel that seems to be mostly about phallicity in the mythic Old West, and two Toto / Tonto confusion panels: the Lone Ranger and Toto (with a...
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Diamonds, dildos, and in Seattle, clams
Acres, folks, acres. Diamonds and dildos got covered in my 8/26 posting “Acres of dildos”. Then from Wendy Thrash on Facebook the next day, more acres that I probably should have talked about in the...
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A smashing time
A smashing time: the Economist‘s punning teaser head on its article about demolition derbies in its 8/24/24 issue: (#1) [Economist caption:] Art for art’s sake (photo: Getty Images) Frankfort, New...
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Slasher Day
slash slash slash: It’s Friday the 13th, and Jim Horwitz has re-run a Watson strip from 9/13/19 that plays with Friday the 13th‘s slasher Jason in a hockey mask: Fudgey the little boy and his big...
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Groucho glasses for 12/3
… the better to see the coming five days The inspiration for this posting is Tom Toro’s cover “Incognito” for the New Yorker‘s 12/2/24 issue: (#1) Farm turkeys in pre-Thanksgiving disguise; turkeys...
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Doctor The Who
For today’s Bizarro, a portmanteau title — Doctor Who + The Who = Doctor The Who [with the overlapping material underlined] — for a hybrid cartoon character, who is simultaneously Tom Baker’s 4th...
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Give a frugal cartoonist a donut strip …
… and they’ll use the old cartoon artwork for another strip, with fresh text: a new, improved donut. Case in point: today’s (12/30, New Year’s Eve Eve) Zippy strip: (#1) The big donut by the side of...
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Pop psychology
The title of today’s Bizarro cartoon — a Psychiatrist cartoon, which will be incomprehensible to anyone who’s not up on American punk music, with a bare-chested, long-haired patient being asked by the...
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Vito Corleone and Jimmy Hoffa walk into a formula pun joke
three rabbits to inaugurate the cruelest month; today is not only April Fools Day, but also noted linguist Leonard Bloomfield’s birthday (in 1897), to be celebrated by a look at his work on Menomini /...
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