Buongiorno, amici di Bizarro.
Today’s blog post includes a photo from a Jazz Pickle who’s also a sax player, a historic pipe pic, the week’s cartoons, and another satisfied t-shirt customer.
I just completed the comics for the first week of December, so I’ll soon put a bow on Year Seven as Bizarro’s daily cartoonist. This batch included gags about robots, coffee, clocks, superhero comic book characters, sibling antagonism, and consumerism.
Looking Ahead & Looking Back
Did I mention that one of the robots was a barfly?
Our first throwback is an acrylic paint doodle from a 1991 sketchbook. I have no idea if the text says anything or is just meaningless scribbles.
Every year, as Halloween approaches, I look at this childhood photo of my brother and me wearing our giant Yogi Bear masks. We had to send cereal boxtops and maybe a dollar to Kellogg’s HQ for these beauties.
I have something shiny in my hands, but I don’t know what it might be.
A couple of years ago, my good pal Vince found some images of the masks in their unassembled form.
Surprising Tweet of the Week
Bob Dylan’s account posted the above on Monday, September 30. Who knew Dylan was a Bob Newhart fan?
Poster Child
This year, I was again invited to design a poster for a Pittsburgh Steelers home game. It’s a cool project that hires Pittsburgh artists, and poster sales benefit Artists Image Resource, a nonprofit resource for printing and education.
Everyone from the Steelers organization is great to work with, and the project is coordinated by my friends Kim from Worker Bird and Dan from CommonWealth Press, so it’s sort of a family project.
My poster is for the October 28th Monday night game against the New York Giants. As we approach game day, I’ll reveal the entire design.
After signing my name 200 times, I’ll be more than ready if we ever buy another house.
Newsletter-Only Bonus Track
Hoyt Curtin was a prolific composer of cartoon theme songs and the longtime Music Director for Hanna-Barbera Studios. In addition to many familiar theme songs, he composed background music, which is subliminally embedded in the brains of my generation. I hope this brings back fond memories to other children raised by television.
As always, thank you for subscribing to the blog and reading Bizarro.
Keep those pipe pics, questions, and t-shirt modeling photos coming in! This newsletter is for you, and your input makes it better.
A few weeks from now, I’ll be drawing gags for 2025, and hoping that we still live in a free democratic society at that time.
See you next week.
With best wishes from your cartoonist,
Wayno
More “Heeey, Boo Boo!” I think.