To Be or Not To Be Dazzled

I’m Dan Piraro, the creator of the Bizarro newspaper comic, and this is my weekly blog post. The large Sunday comic above is mine, as are all of the below-cartoon comments to follow. Since January 2018, the Monday-Saturday Bizarro comics have been written and drawn by my comics partner, Wayno. For more fun, check out Wayno’s weekly blog post.And here’s this week’s ANSWER KEY to my Sunday comic’s Secret Symbols. Howdy, Jazz Pickles. It’s nice to imagine your face again.Let’s start with a quick mention of my Naked Cartoonist creative writing project. I posted a story yesterday titled “Life With a Hand Up Your Butt” that is all about puppets, Muppets, and humanity. Here’s an excerpt:“We may think puppets are nothing more than children’s toys, but I’m fascinated by the power they wield over us psychologically. Though we know they are not alive, we can easily be mesmerized by them, buying into their feigned words and movements until we are fully captivated by a construction of fabric scraps or wood. In a clever ventriloquism act, it is the puppet that has us in stitches, not the human.” One of the many cartoons featured in the articleYou’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll take a nap afterward...