Bizarro iPhone App Update

I've heard from some users of my Bizarro iPhone app that they've had some problems with it crashing. The gurus have issued an update to fix that, so check your App Update button. Or, if you haven't bought it yet, the new one should be complete with the fix. Thanks!

Baby Bear

(To experience the bear at actual size, click his nose.)

Bizarro would like to wish you a Happy Easter, unless you're against Easter and resent being wished a happy of it. In that case, I wish you a happy, albeit insignificant, day.

Since Easter is full of fairy tale contradictions that don't make any sense together, like a magician who comes back from the dead and a giant bunny hiding decorated chicken eggs, this seems as good a cartoon as any to post today. I like this gag quite a bit, if I may be so immodest. It started with the idea of Goldilocks in her old age, then a reunion with the three bears, which turned into this chance meeting near a dumpster with Baby Bear. It has a certain sense of reality to it that amuses me.

I'm not sure if I've plugged Awkward Family Photos before, but I get a lot of my hotlinks from there and it's one of my favorite sites on the Internet. There are some good Easter pics on there today and they have a new book out, which I highly recommend.

Happy Easter!

Sick and Funny

Bizarro is brought to you today by Showbiz.

Thursday night was the big Comedy for Karma show at Gotham Comedy Club in NYC and it was a big success. According to all reports and reviews, everyone had a great time with the exception of me, and here's why.

A few hours before the show, on Thursday afternoon, I started to come down with a deadly illness of some kind. I felt feverish, nauseous, a little dizzy, achy all over, and weak. Yay! Just how you want to feel when trying to make a roomful of people laugh.

I managed to make it through the show – adrenaline will prop you up on those situations – but by the time I got home that night, I felt like death and passed out like a freshman on Spring Break. About 3 in the morning, the barfing began and I spent the next 24 hours in hell. We all know the feeling. This morning, Saturday, I woke up feeling normal again and I'm keeping my fingers crossed. All in all, about a 40-hour bug.

Here are some shots from the show, my picture from the show is beneath the "Showbiz" link in the first line of this post, and yes, I brought my clothes to the show wadded up in a tiny sack.

Opening the show, Myq Kaplan, a relative newcomer but fast-rising star. Funny, smart, won Best Standup NYC competition last year, has his own Comedy Central special premiering on Apr 30. He's also vegan and has some very smart/funny/not-preachy material about it.

Next, Wyatt Cenac of The Daily Show. Smart, funny, Emmy Award winner, made people laugh openly and without remorse.

Lizz Winstead, creator of The Daily Show and Air America Radio, renowned standup comic, producer, performer extraordinaire. She talked a lot about her dog's habit of eating poop, hilarity ensued.

Gary Gulman, three-time veteran of our show, his Comedy Central special was called "Boyish Man," always a huge hit. Even I was laughing while trying to keep down my lunch.

Dave Atell finished the show in his inimitable, ear-burning style. He's been on every TV network, performed in every comedy club in America, is the quintessential pro, and never has a bad night. Atell killed, as he always does. There were a lot of bodies to clean up, but it was worth it.

Wait a minute! No picture of Louis C.K.? Indeed, he had a business emergency come up and had to cancel at the last minute. Very sad, but I explained to everyone that he's really not very funny and I think that made it better.

NOTE: Many readers have asked that we video tape the show for folks to watch online, but with so many performers, each with their own agents and contractual obligations, it is impossible to get anyone to allow a benefit show like this to be taped, unless it's being broadcast. Except for cartoonists, almost no one will give their work away on a large scale for free. Sorry, gang.

Poor Poo

Watch as Poo ascends to the Pearly Gates of... Heaven?

Thanks to everyone who voted on the right!

Amazon Top 50

Here are the Top 50 Graphic Novels on Amazon this afternoon. All the previous caveats apply.


1 (+2). Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1
2 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
3 (+1). Diary of a Wimpy Kid
4 (-3). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
5 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
6 (+1). Kick-Ass
7 (-1). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
8 (+4). Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 6: Retreat
9 (-1). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
10 (-1). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness
11 (+2). The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
12 (-2). Scott Pilgrim, Vol 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
13 (+11). The Boys Volume 6 SC
14 (-3). Scott Pilgrim Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe
15 (N). Rough Justice: The DC Comics Sketches of Alex Ross
16 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5 *
17 (+23). Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead
18 (N). The Complete Peanuts 1975-1976 (Vol. 13)
19 (-4). Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour *
20 (+10). Fables Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover
21 (N). Female Force: Ellen DeGeneres
22 (-1). Captain America: Reborn *
23 (-1). Hellboy Volume 9: The Wild Hunt
24 (-10). Warriors: Ravenpaw's Path #2: A Clan in Need
25 (-6). The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear The Hunters
26 (+5). Watchmen
27 (+17). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
28 (-1). Irredeemable Vol 2
29 (R). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
30 (N). 50,000,000 Pearls Fans Can't Be Wrong: A Pearls Before Swine Collection *
31 (-11). Batman and Robin, Vol. 1: Batman Reborn *
32 (R). Asterios Polyp
33 (-16). Planetary Vol. 4: Spacetime Archaeology
34 (N). A Zits Guide to Living With Your Teenager *
35 (+12). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
36 (R). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
37 (-8). Tales from the Crypt #8: Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid
38 (-15). V for Vendetta
39 (+6). The Losers: Book One (Vols. 1 & 2)
40 (-1). The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis
41 (-4). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
42 (R). The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
43 (-18). The Complete Persepolis
44 (N). Northlanders Vol. 3: Blood in the Snow
45 (N). FoxTrot Sundaes: A FoxTrot Collection *
46 (R). The Long Way Home (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8, Vol. 1)
47 (-1). Mercy Thompson: Homecoming
48 (+1). Batman: Year One
49 (-31). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
50 (-16). Predators and Prey (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Vol. 5)



Items with asterisks (*) are pre-order items.

N = New listing appearing on list for first time
R = Item returning to the list after having been off for 1 or more weeks


Commentary:

* After a week in the shadow of the power of the Wimpy Kid movie, Twilight resumes it place at the top of the comics list (#46 overall).

* Scott Pilgrim remains strong for a second week. Can it keep its strength through the movie's opening in August?

* A good week for strip collections; the latest Complete Peanuts debuts at #18, while collections of Pearls Before Swine, FoxTrot, and Zits also debut.

Fly Crimes and Misdemeanors

Bizarro is brought to you today by Olympic Athletes of Other Worlds.

Today's cartoon is a collaboration between my friend, Richard Cabeza and I. We were discussing how short fly's lives are and then came to the idea of appropriate jail terms. We didn't actually bother to look up the lifespan of the common housefly, of course, that would have been too much like work. One of the nice things about being a cartoonist is that nobody can really hold your feet to the flames about inaccuracies. "It's just a cartoon," is a pretty good defense in virtually any situation.

Tonight is the big comedy show in NYC. I'm a little edgy, as I always am before a show, and I can't keep myself from ad libbing punch lines and cracking wise. It's a subconscious thing as my mind prepares itself to think quickly, but it's obnoxious as hell and CHNW does her best to stay away from me and keep conversation down to a minimum until showtime. Hope to see some of you there.

Until tomorrow, be well, my friends, and keep your hands and feet inside the cockpit at all times.