(To see this cartoon larger and in most of its glory, click the wiener.)
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If I may be momentarily immodest, allow me to say that I really love this cartoon. Everything from the layout and drawings to the deadpan silliness just thrills me. My decades-long admiration for B. Kliban really shows here.
If you saw last Sunday’s cartoon post on this blog, you will remember that my goofy buddy from Somewhere, Texas suggested the germ for it. Oddly enough, good old Brian Levy suggested this one, too. Someone must have sprayed his laundry with genius juice that week. His original suggestion here was “what if other food products had their own car, like the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile?” I decided to make it other countries instead, took the ball and ran with it.
As a vegan, I wouldn’t eat an Oscar Mayer product if you put a gun to my head, of course, but that’s never stopped me from digging the Wienermobile. I’ve seen it on the roads in person quite a few times in my life and I always get a thrill. It’s just so effing weird! Other weird cars I like are:
Batmobile from the 60s
Does anybody make campy-cool cars like these anymore? There’s this fun little guy, but it’s a sequel so it loses some of its punch.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Even though hotdogs can be delicious, I gave them up long before I became vegan. When I was still a corpse muncher, I gave up processed “meat” products like hot dogs, sausages, baloney, spam, etc. because––in my not entirely uneducated opinion––they are pretty much on the very bottom rung of the ladder of acceptable objects to put into your body. I think the only thing less wise would be to slurp up the slimy, pink goo they are made of right off of the shovel they use to scrape them up off the slaughterhouse floor.
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If it’s fun cars (food and otherwise) you need to visit the blog of my favorite motorcycle goddess: Fuzzy Galore. The link below will take you to her “art-car” collection. But, her everyday posts are great, too. Like the one this week about giant boots along the road.
http://www.fuzzygalore.com/category/sights-from-the-road/art-car-sights-from-the-road/
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing.
Do you realize that this comic is accidentally topical? Because yesterday, Mitt Romney announced his Vice Presidential running mate, Paul Ryan, whose most notable private-sector job was DRIVING THE WIENERMOBILE.
http://jalopnik.com/5933877/paul-ryan-used-to-drive-the-wienermobile
(like you/I didn’t need another reason not to vote Republican… while I, personally, still partake in animal flesh products on a regular basis, it has been decades since I’ve let Oscar Mayer into my mouth, and the last hot-dog-ish thing I consumed was Hebrew National brand, but quit when they were acquired by the goyim-agri-mega-corp Con-Agra… I still haven’t gotten over the shotgun marriage between Jimmy Dean and Sara Lee).
Amazing. I’m a psychic cartoonist!
Sounds about right. I went vegetarian gradually, and it originally had nothing to do with ethics. I just lost my appetite for meat. The moralizing came later. And although it took me a long time to find out that store-bought cow’s milk is pretty much guaranteed to be non-vegetarian, I’ve been drinking soy milk or rice milk most of my life, simply because I never liked cow’s milk. I’m vegan now, incidentally.
Just to say, referring to meat eaters as “corpse munchers” comes off as incredibly arrogant and douchey.
Thanks. That was my intent.
So you once again prove yourself to be a holier than thou prick. I’m glad my paper doesn’t carry your strip and deprives you of more undeserved money.
Why do you always have be such a humorless douche, Josh? Lighten up.
It’s also undeniably accurate.
Josh you can type words in the rectangle at the top of your computer. These magic words change the scene on your computer. Perhaps you can find something more agreeable to you. I suggest starting here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100102083829AAHCMmG
LOL at your link.
God the artwork on these is so great.
The sequel Wienermobile looks pretty small.
Is it more like a cocktail wiener?
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The rendering of the cars is really great, Dan. Those are tough to draw.
Thanks, Mike! When I was a kid I used to design and draw all kinds of insanely ridiculous hot rods. Man, I wish I still had those drawings!
I’d noticed that a couple other people were doing your strip so I pictured you sick and old and trying to find someone to take over. Glad that’s not true.
I first read you in 1989 on the East coast, the one about we’re only here for a short time and are slowly being repossessed one by one. I’m still laughing.
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Thanks for your concern, but I’m alive and well and relatively young. :o)
I live in Santa Barbara, and there used to be a company here that actually made the weinermobiles. I’d frequently see one parked out in front of their place. As much as I like the weinermobile, I was way more excited about 10 years ago to be stuck in rush hour traffic in Laguna Beach next to the 1960′s batmobile. It was great to see it just cruising down PCH with the rest of us mere mortals.
I thought the word “corpse muncher” was brilliant! lol
Dan – an odd question for you: I know you met B. Kliban when he was still alive. By any chance, do you know if he ever went by the name/nickname “Bruce?” My brother picked up an old Kliban collection of Playboy cartoons for me, and it was inscribed to someone by “Bruce.” I would assume it was just a gift from someone named Bruce, but the handwriting was very similar to Kliban’s. Just curious!
Kathleen – the real Dan Piraro is 97 years old and living in Florida. The Dan pictured in the blog is actually a super model hired by the real Dan Piraro to portray him in public. Sorry for sharing your secret, “Dan.” ;)
I’m not sure about the “Bruce” issue. It was my understanding that his friends called him “Hap.” I never actually met Kliban, much to my dismay. I found out the day after a party that I attended that he was there, too, but not knowing what he looked like, I was unaware until it was too late. A few years later he died. (cough, cough) Gotta go now, my nurse is here for my daily sponge bath and blood transfusion.
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Opel Kadett?
Indeed. Good eye.