Bizarro symbols
What, readers ask, are those odd symbols (a piece of pie, an eyeball, a stick of dynamite, a space alien, etc.) that crop up in Bizarro cartoons?
This is just one of cartoonist Don Piraro’s things, a little game he plays with his readers: some number of “secret symbols” are salted in almost all his cartoons (they have nothing to do with the actual content of the cartoon), and then their number is noted in the cartoon, just above Piraro’s signature.
An inventory of the secret symbols can be found on the Bizarro site, here.
October 9, 2015 at 2:32 pm |
A tribute to Hirschfeld’s “Nina”s (no, I don’t know how to pluralize that)?
April 15, 2018 at 9:03 am |
The URL has changed — it’s now https://bizarro.com/secret-symbols/ . I had to check again because in today’s cartoon at https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/14/new-frontiers-in-pops/ I couldn’t recognize the inverted bird under the shrink.
December 21, 2020 at 2:28 pm |
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January 6, 2021 at 5:43 pm |
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January 10, 2021 at 11:24 am |
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January 15, 2021 at 11:18 am |
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January 19, 2021 at 2:46 pm |
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February 9, 2021 at 6:48 am |
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February 14, 2021 at 12:00 pm |
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February 19, 2021 at 12:55 pm |
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February 26, 2021 at 7:42 am |
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March 5, 2021 at 1:24 pm |
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March 12, 2021 at 2:52 pm |
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March 18, 2021 at 8:57 am |
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May 10, 2021 at 2:10 pm |
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May 13, 2021 at 10:16 am |
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June 6, 2021 at 3:17 pm |
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June 8, 2021 at 7:21 pm |
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June 14, 2021 at 9:43 am |
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June 26, 2021 at 4:56 pm |
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July 15, 2021 at 7:27 am |
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