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After I posted a Bizarro Batman cartoon and a followup analysis of it, Billy Green has posted on Facebook:

On his blog today, [Dan] Piraro [the Bizarro cartoonist] mentions that this was suggested by another cartoonist, Dan McConnell:

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In this one, a pun on Holy See ‘the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome’.

On his own site, McConnell has a Team Piraro section, with pairings of Piraro and McConnell cartoons. Here’s a punning Bizarro of 4/28/12 (on this blog here) together with a McConnell version of 10/23/13:

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