Dan Piraro: Use your brain. Itâ??s the only thing that separates you from a hamster
Dan Piraro was the special guest during an assembly recently at Lee Elementary School to urge kids to read and don’t eat meat (Dan is a vegetarian).
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Dan Piraro gets favorable write-up in Dallas Morning News
If I posted a story for every headline about Dan Piraro, I’d have to rename the Daily Cartoonist to the Dan Piraro web site…. Mike Peters, the columnist for the Dallas Morning News takes a look at all things Piraro.
Dan Piraro hits the road – starts a blog
I promise I don’t have an agenda or am getting paid to promote Dan Piraro, but he has certainly received quite a bit of digital ink here on the Daily Cartoonist recently. I’m not entirely sure how I came across this, but Dan has started a blog over at MySpace.com. So far the postings are…
Dan Piraro’s “Baloney” show reviewed by LA Times
I’ve posted news about Dan Piraro’s live comedy act here before (listen to interview, here are tour dates and more tour dates). The L.A. Times wrote up a good review for the show which begins tonight in LA. In a bit of turnabout, Piraro reads and comments on the best of his hate mail as…
Dan Piraro interviewed by Diamond Dave Whitaker
San Francisco legendary hippy Diamond Dave Whitaker recently interviewed Dan Piraro about his one man comedy show that is sheduled to start in Los Angeles on April 13. Topics include: cartooning, Dan’s show, reefers, veganism, politics, reefers, flashbacks to the hippy days, and reefers. Okay, maybe marijuana wasn’t the dominating topic, but I had a…
Dan Piraro’s one man comedy act adds three more cities
According to E&P and confirmed on Dan Piraro’s web site – Dan’s one man comedy act has added three more cities to his tour. Cities now added: Dallas, May 21 – Lakewood Theater Tulsa, May 22 – Nightingale Theater Chicago, May 25 – The I.O. Theater For more information on his show, including video clips,…
Dan Piraro receives Genesis Award
Dan Piraro will receive the Ongoing Commitment Award at the 20th Annual Genesis Awards. The Genesis awards is put on by The Humane Society of the United States. Dan won the a Genesis award in 2002 for Outstanding Cartooning. “Over the years, we have been proud to recognize Dan Piraro’s stunning work with Genesis Awards…
Dan Piraro apologizes for cartoon
Dan Piraro, creator of Bizarro, has apologized for a recent cartoon depicting two cowboys around the campfire and one of them singing, “It?s been six long weeks since I seen a woman, and yer startin? to look pretty good.” The caption reads “jeremiah’s last song.” Many felt the cartoon advocated or condoned the killing of…
Sunday Funnies Today, Tomorrow You Pay
Let’s start with some King Features funnies … oh, wait it’s been two days since the last time and I have to log in, again, and check off my favorites, again. So, again, I will plead for Comics Kingdom to put a “select all” box on their favorites page that would automatically check all the…
The Saturday Satchel
Ernest Lawrence Thayer with Brian Nelson and Harvey Kurtzman and Jack Davis, Garfield, Steve Brodner and The Herblock Prize, Jay Stephens’ homage to EC, AI gag writing, a centennial Annie-versary, and Dan Piraro and Wayno and Bizarro. Batter up! Brian Nelson, at The Worcester Telegram, offers a brief history of Casey at the Bat in…
CSotD: Games People Play
I wish I thought Tank McNamara (AMS) was making an off-the-wall joke here, but it seems perfectly on-the-wall to me. My introduction to sports gambling was also my introduction to local mafia, because when I was in college, I knew a high school kid who sold betting slips and his uncle, who was connected but…
Miss Cellany Clears the Queue
Before another Saturday comes around I’d best get this Wayno Blog from last month out of the way where Wayno discusses the idea of waiting for an idea to come to you rather than chasing an idea. Our colleague Mark Parisi, cartoonist of the award-winning panel Off the Mark, recently started a lively social media…
Holy Week – But Few Easter – Comics
Dave Whamond began Holy Week with his Palm Sunday Reality Check page depicting The Last Supper a few days earlier than it is traditionally held and doing a pretty good job of showing the Leonardo Da Vinci painting. The past week began in earnest with Monday and Greg Cravens playing with negative art in The…
Sunday Funnies & The New Comics Kingdom – Thoughts
Some thoughts on scrolling through The Sunday Funnies on the new revised Comics Kingdom site. That gawdawful black background has gotta go. Or at the very least surround every comic with an eight inch (preferably a quarter inch) of white space a la The Saga of Brann Bjornson. Too much clicking. To start my look…
Sunday Survey of Sundry Subjects
Heathcliff, J. D. Crowe and Mardi Gras, Vintage Comic Strip Preservation and sharing, Robb Armstrong and Franklin Armstrong, Brad Guigar – 24 years as a cartoonist, WEBTOONS, Reader reviews of the new Gannett comics pages. Whether you get your Heathcliff comics from the aforementioned account or the comic’s perplexing original website, it’s clear something has…