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Dizzy Zippy zigs at Zzyzx

… and, instead of taking the Zzyzx exit, catches a ride with a guy in a SYZYGY car to the end of the road, where one-point perspective takes you (so we are both out in the desert in San Bernardino...

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Apostrophobia

Wayno’s Bizarro for 11/8 — yes, I am hopelessly overwhelmed with posting material, wondering whether I’ll ever catch up; on the other hand, my health has taken a turn back to normal awful, which I’m...

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Three memic cartoons

- 1: 12/24, Christmas Eve, and a cold rain’s a-fallin’. But along comes the New Yorker‘s 12/23/24 issue, the annual Cartoons and Puzzles issue, with a section on “cartoons about fine, good, and...

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The fox plays in many memes

A Mark Thompson cartoon in the 1/20/25 issue of the New Yorker offers a foxy goulash of cultural forms: cartoon memes, joke forms, story formats, and conversational routines: (#1) The Dog in Bar...

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Pop psychology

The title of today’s Bizarro cartoon — a Psychiatrist cartoon, which will be incomprehensible to anyone who’s not up on American punk music, with a bare-chested, long-haired patient being asked by the...

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Put a red apple in that mouth

… and call it Cochon de lait rôti. Put a mouth on that green apple and call it Le fils de l’homme. Mash them together in a nightmare and you get today’s Bizarro strip, a Wayno Psychiatrist cartoon...

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Death comes for the appliances

today is (Double) Disaster Day: (political disaster) Abraham Lincoln assassinated in 1865, (maritime disaster) the steamship Titanic striking an iceberg in 1912 (to sink the next day); and so the...

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Schadenfroggy

A Victoria Roberts schadenfrog cartoon in the 5/5/25 New Yorker: (#1) The surviving frog — call it Schadenfroggy — takes malicious pleasure in its companion having been flattened to death; it’s a...

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Appliances in therapy

Today’s Bizarro is a Psychiatrist cartoon done with common kitchen appliances: a tea kettle and a coffee percolator sit on a couch in couples therapy, with a toaster therapist: (#1) Wayno’s title,...

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Bill, it is the scribbling of a gigantic scoundrel

… and your buddy’s on the case, we’ll get the miscreant, trust me! That’s the burden of this goofy Desert Island cartoon in the latest (5/12&19/25) issue of the New Yorker: (#1) Bill’s priceless...

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