Friday, 8 January 2010

Contest WINNERERS!

Yes, once again we have winners and here is what they call themselves and order in which they submitted the correct answers:

1. Randy ...soon-to-be proud owner of FIVE packs of Bizarro Trading Cards! DANG!
2. Abdullah ...ditto, TWO packs, ditto.
3. dcroberts ...ditto.

Thanks to everyone who played our little game puzzle contest thingy. If I'm still alive and in command of my faculties, I shall post another contest next Thursday. Until then, please enjoy my daily postings of cartoons and other nonsense, one of which will appear in this space within the hour.

XOXO

Thursday, 7 January 2010

Contest #15

RULES, ETC:
As usual, two images are posted below, one is the original cartoon, the warped image beneath it has been changed in 15 ways. Your mission, if you are a righteous hero of historic proportion is to find those differences.

1. There are 15 differences between the two cartoons.
2. NONE of the differences have to do with the warped nature of the second image.
3. ALL of the differences are something missing, added, or moved, not just "bent" from the distortion. The differences will not be too subtle, so once you spot one you should be relatively certain you've found it. (As opposed to something like, "I think that guy has one extra whisker. Hmmm.")
4. FIRST PERSON to correctly list the 15 differences in the comments section of the post wins 5 packs of Bizarro Trading Cards, mailed by me personally from Bizarro International Headquarters in Brooklyn. I'll even lick the stamp, unless it's self adhesive. SECOND AND THIRD persons with correct answers will each get 2 packs of Bizarro Trading Cards!
5. Put your email address on your comment so I can contact you if you win. I won't post it or keep it or file it or sell it or mount a Broadway musical about it.
6. If you live outside the U.S., I may not be able to send you a prize. Depends. Canada is probably fine, Saudia Arabia, probably not.

Click on the image below to ENLARGE and PLAY!

Public Nudity for the Greater Good

Bizarro is brought to you today by Beverage Biology.

I do a lot of cartoons about people sitting in bars, as do many cartoonists, but I don't actually spend any time in bars. But as much as I dislike smalltalk with strangers, noise, uncomfortable seating and overpriced drinks, a bar is still a terrific setting for two people who don't know each other to exchange punch lines. So here we are.

I can imagine a further scene in this cartoon. The bartender says to the guy, "Sir, you're not wearing any clothing," to which he replies with cliche authoritative smugness, "It's all right, I'm a doctor."

Hope you enjoyed this rectangular attempt at humor. Please don't miss the dandy reflections in the countertop. I worked hard on those.

THIS JUST IN: THERE WILL BE A CONTEST LATER TODAY! FIRST ONE IN SEVERAL WEEKS!! SPREAD THE WORD!!! CONTEST WILL BE POSTED AT 7PM NYC TIME!!!!

Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Jump

Bizarro is brought to you by Poignant Clothing.

Today's cartoon is about motorcycles and wheelchair ramps and daredevils and people who work at corny chain restaurants like T.G.I.Friday's. I'm getting a giggle from it.

Pretty soon I'm going to start doing the occasional video blog. Do you think that would be fun? I'll just sit at my desk and talk into a home video camera about the day's cartoon or whatever. Let me know your thoughts.

You're special. Write it on your hand in Sharpie so you don't forget.

Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Random Humor














If you're like me and you enjoy cartoons that look as though they were written by a 7th grader (but weren't), try this online comic I just discovered. I got some chuckles here but you have to search a bit.

This is my favorite joke so far...Annoying Disease.
Another good one...Here.
This one gave me a giggle, as well.

And definitely don't neglect to click "Mystery Button" a few times. It's my FAVE.

Monday, 4 January 2010

Amazon Top 50 of 2009

I've finished tabulating all of the data, and here are the Top 50 Graphic Novels sold on Amazon in 2009:

  1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
  2. Watchmen (paperback)
  3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
  4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules
  5. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
  6. Batman: The Killing Joke
  7. V for Vendetta
  8. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
  9. Mercy Thompson Homecoming
  10. Batman: Arkham Asylum (15th Anniversary Edition)
  11. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
  12. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
  13. Batman: Year One
  14. Time of Your Life (Buffy season 8, vol. 4)
  15. The Complete Persepolis
  16. The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
  17. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
  18. Asterios Polyp
  19. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
  20. The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
  21. Serenity, Vol. 2: Better Days
  22. Wolves at the Gate (Buffy season 8 vol. 3)
  23. The Joker
  24. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
  25. Dark Tower: Treachery
  26. Batman: R.I.P.
  27. Star Trek: Countdown TPB
  28. Predators and Prey (Buffy season 8 vol. 5)
  29. The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
  30. Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
  31. The Complete Peanuts 1971-1974 Box Set
  32. Bone: One Volume Edition
  33. Final Crisis
  34. Stitches: A Memoir
  35. Dilbert: 2010 Day-to-Day Calendar
  36. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1
  37. Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? Deluxe
  38. The Walking Dead, Vol. 10: What We Become
  39. Blueberry Girl
  40. Watchmen (hardcover)
  41. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
  42. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 3: Century #1
  43. The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain
  44. Fables, Vol. 12: The Dark Ages
  45. The Long Way Home (Buffy season 8, vol. 1)
  46. The Arrival
  47. Watchmen (absolute edition)
  48. Parker: The Hunter
  49. The Marvel Encyclopedia
  50. Tumor Chapter 1 (kindle)
I'll have a much larger post in a few days that includes the much longer list and describes my methodology; and at some point I'm going to play with some graphs as well.

Warm and Wet

Bizarro is brought to you today by Multitasking.

When this cartoon published I got the following email from a reader:

"There IS NO significant man made global warming. C’mon, get with the program. The waders are for all the nonsense and outright fabrications about this topic."

I get this sort of thing fairly regularly from climate change deniers, creationists, people of all sorts who ignore science in favor of beliefs that are more comforting than the truth.

In truth, I hope this guy is right and the data is wrong. It will make for a much more pleasant future. As it looks now, however, I may live long enough to see wide scale famine in North America and my own neighborhood underwater. Drag.

One other thing that the climate change deniers ignore: the overwhelming majority of scientists in the world corroborate the phenomenon and have little or nothing to gain by doing so (other than a handful of grant money to study it), while the very few scientists and politicians who deny it are attached to multi-billion-dollar corporations who make their living polluting the planet.

Does it really take Einstein to figure out who has a bigger motivation to lie?