Bizarro cartoons
Bizarro, by Dan Piraro
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ML, 4/26/06: Who is the decider?:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003070.html
AZ, 1/30/07: Pronouns: the early days:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004122.html
AZ, 3/8/07: The language of first contact:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004286.html
AZ, 3/24/07: Dangling in court:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004334.html
AZ, 5/27/07: The station house writing seminar:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004537.html
AZ, 12/24/07: Another reversal:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005255.html
AZ, 5/29/08: Bizarro roundup:
AZ, 10/19/08: Cartoon teenage communication:
12/18/08: Season’s greetings for 2008:
12/18/08: Bizarro goes formal:
AZ, 3/28/09: Private meanings:
7/20/20: Carrot stick:
8/14/09: The eye chart:
12/9/09: Spork:
1/3/10: Sunday puns:
AZ, 1/6/10: New frontiers in animal communication:
1/23/10: informate:
3/2/10: Geer?:
3/13/10: MS and Apple in Eden:
3/22/10: Dilating eye teeth:
3/27/10: The Saturday cartoon crop:
#3
4/29/10: Dudetalk in the Arctic:
5/6/10: Color coding:
5/21/10: We need to V:
6/12/10: Spoken emoticons:
6/13/10: The Commencement pun crop:
6/18/10: Telescoped POPs:
6/21/10: Bizarro puns:
6/25/10: Cartoons for the weekend:
AZ, 7/30/10: And in Spanish, we dance …:
7/10/10: Domestic class rebellion: a good haircut ruint:
8/11/10: The pun watch:
8/15/10: Today’s pun patrol:
8/23/10: Dating by cliché:
8/30/10: On the pun patrol:
10/11/10: More pink Freud:
10/13/10: Two obscenicon cartoons:
12/5/10: Dialect in the comics:
12/23/10: The Gettysburg tweet:
12/26/10: Punnies #11:
1/30/11: Fast food portmanteaus:
2/4/11: A portmanteau crop:
2/4/11: Annals of smileys:
2/11/11: The far reaches of analogy:
3/11/11: Homophones:
3/23/11: Cartoon etymology:
3/25/11: Today’s Bizarro pun:
3/26/11: Darn!:
3/27/11: The doctor will see you:
4/4/11: An old joke:
4/11/11: Sunday punnies:
4/26/11: Weighty words:
6/12/11: Sunday punnies:
6/26/11: Three positive monkeys:
7/19/11: Prefix foolishness:
7/21/11: Awesomeness:
7/25/11: Name chains:
7/25/11: Sunday punnies #16:
8/8/11: When hell freezes over:
8/17/11: Highway whateverism:
8/20/11: Munch up to date:
9/13/11: Comic pronouns:
10/3/11: diddly squat:
10/4/11: Auxiliary Reduction in the comics:
10/16/11: Bizarro puns:
10/23/11: I X NY:
10/23/11: Adverb play:
11/6/11: The power of intonation:
11/7/11: Disco:
11/9/11: Big words:
11/26/11: Bizarro POP:
1/4/12: Rin Tin …:
1/15/12: Surreal estate:
2/19/12: Punnies #21:
2/27/12: motion, movement, move:
3/5/12: The pin-pen merger:
3/8/12: Trannysaurus:
3/13/12: Alphabeticals:
3/19/12: Monster mash:
3/29/12: Imperative, declarative:
4/10/12: fugues:
4/29/12: Puntoon for the weekend:
5/20/12: Inversion:
6/3/12: Balloons:
6/3/12: On the masculinity beat:
6/14/12: Death at play:
#1
6/17/12: Cartoon conventions:
6/18/12: More cartoon conventions:
6/21/12: Coal mimers:
6/25/12: More meta-Bizarro:
7/6/12: Flashing:
7/7/12: We need to talk, more takes:
#1
7/10/12: Cartoon fingers:
#1
7/13/12: In the comics:
#2
7/15/12: Framing:
7/18/12: You’re not the boss of me:
7/19/12: Magritte:
7/20/12: Bizarro POP:
7/24/12: Outlaws with puns:
7/29/12: Sunday puns:
#1
8/7/12: More play with initialisms:
8/12/12: Food vehicles:
8/29/12: The bat hole:
9/4/12: Begging to differ:
9/7/12: Still more fun with initialisms:
9/11/12: Tones:
9/11/12: Goose dialects:
9/15/12: More Canadian raising:
9/16/12: Avian Olympics:
9/22/12: toad:
10/7/12: Today’s dreadful pun:
11/7/12: Bubbles:
12/25/12: Oh, no, not a pony!:
1/3/13: Paternity:
3/3/13: Sunday funnies:
#1
3/19/13: Can we talk?:
3/31/13: Another pun from yesterday:
4/3/13: Eggs over easily:
4/13/13: Manliness and money:
4/17/13: Penguins and tuxedos:
#1
4/18/13: Infant spidey:
4/18/13: The sturgeon general:
4/20/13: Indirect pun:
4/24/13: Palindrome time:
5/5/13: Clubbing:
5/19/13: Bizarro portmanteau:
6/21/13: Language evolution, cartoon summary:
7/4/13: On the unicorn watch:
7/14/13: Revolution at school:
7/21/13: As the car drives:
8/4/13: Threee more cartoons for Sunday:
#1
8/7/13: Two punny moments:
#2
8/28/13: The hangman’s tale:
10/4/13: Religious coffee pun:
10/10/13: screwage:
10/12/13: Bizarro Saturday:
10/13/13: Sunday funnies:
#1
10/14/13: Pooh:
10/21/13: Two cartoons:
#1
11/12/13: Comics on comics:
allusions to Mr. Natural and Nancy
12/8/13: Strained Xmas portmanteau:
12/14/13: Claus time:
12/19/13: Cartoon omnibus:
#2
1/8/14: Two cartoons:
#1
1/9/14: Early writing in the comics:
1/21/14: Four cartoons:
#3
1/27/14: Orthographic pun:
1/30/14: Captions:
1/31/14: Superhero dining:
2/8/14: Apostrophe time:
2/15/14: Yet another pun:
2/17/14: Embedded PP:
2/20/14: Caption exercise:
3/4/14: Framing the message:
3/11/14: funny:
3/19/14: Another crop of cartoons:
#2
3/23/14: Sunday melange:
#1
3/26/14: Two Bizarros and two New Yorkers:
2 cartoons
3/31/14: Monday quartet:
#2
4/18/14: Three for today:
#2
4/20/14: Three for the day:
#1
4/27/14: Communicators:
#2
5/2/14: Three more for Friday:
#3
5/3/14: Balloon dogs and Mr. Met:
#1
5/7/14: After Cinco de Mayo:
#2
5/10/14: Party of five:
#4
5/14/14: Four at midweek:
#3
5/18/14: Plus four:
#1
5/24/14: Three more diverse:
#1
6/1/14: May-June turnover:
#2
6/4/14: In style:
6/9/14: Getting the message across:
6/10/14: whoa!:
#1
6/15/14: Fathers Day five:
#5, #6
6/17/14: Rage against the emoticon:
6/20/14: Title or slogan?:
6/27/14: Ridiculous analysis:
7/9/14: Godzilla’s Manhattan:
7/9/14: Layered portmanteaus:
7/14/14: A Saturday quartet:
#4
7/19/14: Saturday monster puns:
#1
8/4/14: -ese:
8/13/14: A Bizarro reposting:
re-posting of cartoon previously posted 1/30/07
8/28/04: While Robin’s off duty:
8/29/14: Bizarro followup:
followup to the previous
8/30/14: More Bizarro followup:
another followup
9/6/14: Supersenior:
9/9/14: Homographs:
9/10/14: More Bizarro parrots:
9/17/14: Smoke signals:
9/22/14: Ned talk:
9/28/14: Speaking late:
10/9/14: Two for Thursday:
#2
10/10/14: Once more on background information in the comics:
#1
10/15/14: No stinkin’ budgies:
10/16/14: Hidden symbols:
10/18/14: X-bar:
10/24/14: Today’s outrageous pun:
11/8/14: Saturday trio:
#3
11/23/14: Admissions:
12/10/14: Bizarro word play:
12/26/14: The lure of the Internet:
1/4/15: Conjugal visit:
1/16/15: Indian:
1/24/15: Bizarro’s 30th:
2 cartoons
2/1/15: Bizarro evolution:
2/2/15: V vs. N:
2/9/15: Flightless no more:
2/19/15: Auto parts:
2/20/15: Bird seed:
2/22/15: lost:
2/26/15: The thieving sap spitter:
3/1/15: Abduction:
3/8/15: Three cartoons:
#2
4/8/15: Vegan diners and gay opponents:
4/9/15: Hurt corporate feelings:
4/12/15: Sunday pun:
4/23/15: Dinosaur connoisseur:
4/27/15: A blogging puzzle:
5/5/15: Service animals:
5/10/15: Symbolic Bizarro:
5/17/15: On the way to the Emerald City:
5/23/15: Cavemen at the dawn of writing:
5/24/15: The giant glass slipper:
5/30/15: Shifty Grades of Fey:
6/11/15: Prairie cat:
6/19/15: From manure du jour to the Ascent of Man:
2 cartoons
6/25/15: Two for Thursday:
#2
7/21/15: complimentary
7/23/15: The unflappable waitress:
7/26/15: Kongtoon:
7/30/15: Name play in the comics:
#2
8/1/15: Bizarro devolution:
8/4/15: Childhood memories:
8/5/15: Language cartoon Wednesday:
#3
8/23/15: Falling trees:
8/26/15: Warnings on the label:
9/13/15: Ten language-y comics:
#1, #3, #9
10/2/15: Signage:
10/8/15: Genericization:
10/12/15: Our playful artists:
10/15/15: At the Bison Bar:
10/17/15: Comic superheroes of the Wild West:
11/8/15: Bizarro etymology:
11/11/15: In the miniature world:
11/13/15: Address terms in service encounters:
11/18/15: How can we help, caller?:
11/29/15: Too early for celebration?”
11/30/15: Rhyme or reason:
12/12/15: Victoria’s Secret Agent:
12/30/15: Five cartoons for the penultimate day:
#4
1/7/16: Bizarro groaner:
1/9/16: Signage models:
1/22/16: Two Bizarros:
1/22/16: Bizarro cartoons redux:
5 old cartoons redrawn more recently
2/13/16: Calling shogun:
2/19/16: The grief of ulnarism:
3/1/16: CounterEvolution:
5 cartoons on Donald Trump
3/12/16: Spoiled children:
3/16/16: You’re money’s no good here:
3/17/16: For St.Patrick’s:
5/1/16: Between the desert and the couch:
5/19/16: Definitions:
5/28/16: Two word-play cartoons:
#1
5/28/16: The snail days of summer:
#7
5/31/16: Circularity at the dawn of language:
6/28/16: Gang of five:
#1
7/7/16: Annoying instruments:
7/9/16: Two cat cartoons:
#2
7/10/16: goober:
7/22/16: queer:
7/23/16: Let’s go paleo:
8/24/16: Cartoon characters’ self-awareness:
9/1/16: Alphabet soup:
10/6/16: Bozo’s ark:
10/17/16: Dog massage:
10/28/16: Halloween exposure:
10/30/16: Toon animal time:
#1
11/6/16: If you see something,…:
11/7/16: Animal instincts:
12/4/16: International Day of Persons with Disabilities:
12/8/16: The Curious George caper:
12/20/16: It’s beginning to look a lot like Fishmas:
1/4/17: Cake and Edith:
1/12/17: Poplar Mechanics:
1/25/17: A sex/gender symbol of the mind:
1/30/17: Gender and sexuality in the comics:
#1
2/1/17: Borne again:
#1
2/16/17: Emoji are the hieroglyphs of the future:
2/19/17: Playlinguist:
2/22/17: Understanding the comics:
3/10/17: Friday cartoon 3: More news for penises:
#1
3/14/17: Bizarro pi(e):
3/18/17: elephantitis:
3/19/17: It was correction killed the desire:
3/28/17: Bizarro compounds:
3/31/17: The Ahab-Moby affair:
4/3/17: On the road, a/some head:
4/3/17: The Pyramids as abstractions:
4/10/17: A primate with a pipe:
4/13/17: Three more Reapings:
4/15/17: A scent of man:
4/28/17: Friday word play in the comics:
#2
5/1/17: Like a mayfly:
5/5/17: Potato Head strip poker:
3 cartoons
5/11/17: Nudist penguins on parade:
5/18/17: Presentation and perception:
5/23/17: “Farley”, the dog said, “get me a slice”:
#1
5/25/17: 1 Bizarro, 2 Bizarro:
2 cartoons
5/27/17: Memorial Saturday 4:
#3
6/4/17: Detached bodyparts in the comics:
#1
6/11/17: Making fun of Batman:
#2
6/19/17: Sales talk:
6/29/17: Futility as a figure of speech:
7/4/17: POP go the pheromones:
#2
7/7/17: What will become of me?:
7/15/17: Surreal juxtaposition:
8/4/17: WaynoPOPs:
#2, 3, 6
8/5/17: Don’t put your cat in a hat:
8/14/17: Combos:
8/18/19: Make America grate again:
8/23/17: -izing the dog:
9/28/17: The fatal bookpile:
10/4/17: Z is for zip:
10/13/17: Clowns and their balloon animals:
10/23/17: The pumpkin spice cartoon meme:
#3
11/5/17: In a bun, in a bun!:
11/7/17: The wonderful world of Batsportation:
11/17/17: Taking it easy:
11/17/17: Singing in parts:
#3
11/30/17: Two memic moments:
#5
12/17/17: Moby Chick, Moby Duck, Moby Dip:
#1
12/25/17: Easter Island holiday:
12/29/17: George Booth at 90: elephants and holidays:
#8, 9
1/4/18: Two puns for Thursday:
#2
1/27/18: Four exercises in cartoon understanding:
#3
2/17/18: Tell them you haven’t seen him:
#1 and #4
2/26/18: Dancing with the cars:
3/3/18: Familiar cartoon themes: Waldo and sugar bombs:
#1
3/4/18: Two memic cartoons:
#2
3/5/18: Another WaynoPOP:
3/13/18: Mistakes in avian medicine:
3/14/18: Adventures in antonymy:
3/15/18: giving a speech on drugs:
3/16/18: The cartoon doctor:
#1
3/24/18: Three Saturday lingtoons:
#2
3/31/18: Little Orphan Anime:
4/8/18: Three weekend cartoons: POP goes the caveman couple, recursively:
Three weekend cartoons: POP goes the caveman couple, recursively
4/14/18: New frontiers in POPs:
4/24/18: No shoes, take 2:
5/5/18: The roar of the reporter, the sound of the comics:
5/5/18: Mayotoon:
5/11/18: Differentiae:
5/14/18: Psychiatrist Meme Day:
5/16/18: Surreal beer:
5/20/18: Charmed, I’m sure:
5/22/18: (I just) can’t stop (it):
#6
5/29/18: Chez Le Fourmilier:
6/1/18: A chiastic bird:
#1
6/3/18: The canine therapist:
6/11/18: In case of cartoons, see therapist:
#5
6/24/18: The musician, the mayor, his instrument, and their vermin:
7/1/18: Photobombing Magritte:
7/8/18: Adam atom:
7/26/18: Hi-g pun for Xmas in July:
8/4/18: Cultural knowledge:
#9
8/6/18: Two occasions, four cartoons:
#1
8/8/18: The elephant in therapy:
#2
8/21/18: More bedevilment:
8/28/18: Melodramamine:
9/22/18: therapist dog, dog therapist:
#1
9/25/18: The dog therapist is IN:
10/6/18: He shot the serif:
10/8/18: Fly formulaicity:
10/15/18: Piñata under the gun:
10/24/18: Three exercises in cartoon understanding:
#3
11/1/18: Sweet stuff:
#4
11/10/18: Cartoon understanding in parallel worlds:
#2
11/17/18: Teddy Bears’ Picnic Day:
11/19/18: Revisiting 21: registering Mr. Banner:
12/3/18: Wok to the golden Lab for analysis, har-de-har-har:
#2
12/10/18: Understanding Bizarro:
12/20/18: Ask not for whom the Reaper scythes:
#1
12/27/18: bait and tackle:
1/27/19: hunter gatherers:
1/28/19: The party linguist:
2/5/19: Aquatic carpentry:
2/9/19: Displaced icons of art:
2/17/19: Eat it! The oral humiliation you deserve:
2/19/19: Wading with Vladimir and Estragon:
#3
3/19/19: Le retour des hiéroglyphes:
3 Bizarro strips
3/21/19: The moving sale:
3/30/19: How to use your balloons:
4/17/19: The last Peepshow:
#7
5/16/19: Is Timmy in trouble?:
#1
5/29/19: On the dog food watch:
6/10/19: The Mememobile:
6/13/19: A superheroic identity crisis:
6/27/19: The Desert Island Reaper:
#2, #3, #6
6/29/19: A bit more reaping:
7/4/19: Am I a bird?:
#2, #3
7/12/19: The clown barber of Custard Street:
#1
7/16/19: Singout at the CA chorale:
8/11/19: Cats in hats:
8/13/19: Contamination by association:
8/26/19: shaker of salt:
9/3/19: Cavemen of higher education:
9/5/19: Revisiting 33: the ambiguity of the truffle:
9/6/19: The news from Nadoland:
#2
10/9/19: Two old cartoon friends:
several strips from earlier postings
10/11/19: The existential question:
#3 and #4
10/18/19: Heavenly POP:
10/25/19: B.Z.P.D.:
10/29/19: Signtax and the Sloppy Joe apostrophe:
11/1/19: Bears in the woods:
#1 and #6
11/3/19: Another BYOB:
11/6/19: The Russian sardines are coming!:
11/14/19: Chart pie:
11/17/19: A hell of a queen:
#1 from 2018
11/17/19: Shoe-high pie:
12/1/19: Three comic rabbits for December:
12/13/19: Two actor POP days:
12/26/19: The first two days of Christmas:
2 cartoons
1/13/20: Just one peanut:
#7
1/14/20: Revisiting 41: Mr. Peanut seeks professional help:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/01/14/revisiting-41-mr-peanut-seeks-professional-help/
1/22/20: Three little digits:
2 cartoons (#1 and #2)
1/24/20: This isn’t hospitality, this is animosity:
1/31/20: Identify that potato:
2/1/20: Revisiting 42: stalked by a giant anthropomorphic squirrel:
#1
2/22/20: While you’re up:
2/24/20: Ho, ho, the three of clubs:
#3
3/16/20: Higashi Day 6: Pi Day cartoon understanding:
#1
3/27/20: Chez Le Formulier II:
#1 (and re-play in #2)
4/5/20: Desert Island Psychiatrist:
#1 (and re-play in #3)
4/18/20: Tod und Verklärung:
4/20/20: The therapist is in French:
5/8/20: Thrifty, Brave, Clean, & Flammable:
5/13/20: The goblet with the hobbit has the wine that is fine:
5/15/20: Edgar Allan Wrench:
5/17/20: Title bout:
5/21/20: Knight bibs:
5/22/20: The shoe in the toilet:
2 cartoons
6/2/20: The flying fickle finger of foam:
6/5/20: Death trap:
6/16/20: Pavlov’s novelist:
7/2/20: Learn to drawl:
7/6/20: Suicidal cats:
old Bizarro in French and in English
7/15/20: At the Paleo Cafe:
one new, and many old, strips
7/23/20: Fear of furniture:
7/24/20: The Pierogi Western:
8/1/20: Nuancy Nancy:
8/2/20: Hairy ice:
8/3/20: The art of everyday objects:
#1
8/4/20: Surrogates:
8/5/20: Caterpillars spinning platters:
8/9/20: Flies met cute:
8/12/20: Two whimsical Bizarros:
8/12/20: Christopher Robin Hood:
9/1/20: The soup fly:
9/9/20: Crossed folk stories:
9/9/20: Red Löbster Cult:
9/27/20: Film blanc:
10/20/20: Desert island discs:
12/28/20: this:
1/6/21: Western medicine:
1/10/21: Rorschach v. Magritte:
1/15/21: Flat on his back at the solstce:
1/19/21: Cure Bear: