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Today’s cartoon mystified a few readers, but not many, I suspect. This one is a simple twist on a famous painting by Belgian surrealist, Rene Magritte. If you’ve seen it, you get the gag. If not, you probably don’t.
I think this gag is brilliant and I SO wish I could say I wrote it. Instead, it was written by a friend and colleague of mine, a very talented cartoonist in his own right, Dan McConnell. 
The same character appears in a cartoon I did a few months ago.
And, on the subject of surrealism, I offer you this little scribble of a man who has no Twitter account. Is he the last holdout? If you can figure out what this one means, please keep it to yourself as I’m enjoying the mystery.
This kind of cartoon is a bit opaque for many readers, true, but they keep the riffraff away from Bizarro. Not just any cucumber can become a Jazz Pickle, you know. (wink)
The Pez candy company has generously donated their name today in this cartoon that is another collaboration with my known associate, Wayno of Pittsburgh. You can see his sketch version and comments on his blog here.
As you’ll see, I didn’t vary from his original sketch at all on this one. What’s to change? It’s great the way it is.
I’ve been thinking of a lot of mime gags lately, for some reason. The recent Olympic games inspired this one. My favorite part of the cartoon is the judges looking so closely at the invisible ball.
Here’s a bit of Jazz Pickle trivia: if you squint your eyes and look very hard at the top border just to the left of my signature, you may be able to just make out the words, “Happy B-day, Killio!” I have no idea why this is here but it seems to appear in my cartoon every year on this date. More mystery.
My last cartoon today is a dandy pun suggested by Victor the Boy Genius. He’s home from college for the summer (if you can call the hillbilly lernin’ institoot he attends a college) so he’s got a lot of time on his hands. Mostly, I think he just sits around on his rickety, wooden front porch playing banjo and watching his bloodhound nap, but one day this idea (or “idear,” as he calls it) occurred to him and I got a smile from it so I drew it up.
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Bird beak is not the last holdout, I do not have a twitter account either!!!
I applaud you.
Love the Jazz Pickle Dance!
or should I say the Dancing Jazz Pickles :)
Interesting how I don’t do the typing thingy when I’ve got something seemingly important and deep and witty to comment, but this time I had to just give my vote of approval to another Jazz Pickling reference. Do know that this reader reads and takes note of every blog post posted and almost every image link linked.
Guess I must take advantage of this sorta rare commenting of mine to ask, ‘So how are you Mr. Piraro? Everything awesome in Bizarro Headquarters, LA as usual? How is the Film Part shooting going? Health okay? Still Veganing? Good, good. Nice to be updated. Catch ya later.’
Take care and have a great day ahead :)
Was the painting The Son of Man ?
Yes.
Since we share the same first name, and my birthday is 08/22, I’m going to assume from now on that you’re wishing me special birthday wishes. Thanks Mr. Piraro!!
You are most welcome. Many happy returns!
Love the Audi!
That’s exactly my type of silly wordplay humor. Greetings from Germany Dan, I love your humor and your cartoon posts always lighten up my day (night actually, but light is more rare then, so that’s even better).
Also liked the fishes on the dry floor a couple of days (weeks?) ago, just thought you should know – no idea why, but fan avowals are always great I bet. Never had one.
Always be zarro!
(I wonder if that’s even a pun with the English pronunciation…)
Hahaha to all of them! And Yay! A new image under the Jazz Pickle link! I didn’t know I could dance like that. I always thought I can’t dance at all.
The bird guy’s date looks so familiar, where have I seen this lady before?
Hi Dan…are you familiar with Billy the Mime? If not, I will take you to see him next time he’s performing in LA. Hopefully soon!
I think you will really enjoy him.
Never heard of him but I’m willing to learn.
I think Jazz Pickle is gonna be the #1 costume for Halloween this year.
I’ll believe it when I see it. :0)
Just for the record, I too have no Twitter account. Nor do I have a Facebook account or a cellphone for that matter. I am an ancient anachronism.
Wait — wasn’t Pezaro that cartoonist who discovered the fountain of youth?
He never found it.
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That Pez dispenser comic cracked me up. I’ve always wondered about the appeal of a piece of candy dispensed through a slit in the throat!
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Loved the bellybutton panel!
Just for the record, the proper name for the ‘invisible ball’ is ‘shot’. (I used to photograph a lot of track and field; the shot putters were one of my favorite subjects, after hurdlers and relay racers.)
Here you go, Dan: http://www.billythemime.net/
He just finished the Fringe Festival in Scotland, so hopefully he will have a show soon.
Looks great, Ginger. Can’t wait to see him!
This one was on an italian magazine, pretty sure they didn’t ask for copiright.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_s4mlhQNuYQ/UDna8cRsv2I/AAAAAAAAFuw/w-b55jY-31E/s1600/foto.JPG
Thanks for the link, Flaviao. They might have paid a licensing fee, I don’t usually handle that kind of thing so I have no idea. :o)
Laughed out loud with the bellybuttons! I just can’t decide which is funnier – the cartoons or the links?! How do you find some of those pictures???? Thanks for always adding some humor to my day!
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