Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Do not experiment on monkeys; as we see on the cover of Gespenster Geschichten Spezial #182, they do not like it!


Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.

High Wire Act

(For the love of god, click the image to make it bigger!)

Bizarro is brang to you today by Country Charm.

Speaking of wireless, the big news this past week was the Apple iPad. I don't know anything about the product because I don't keep up on these things, but it looks like a giant iPhone that you might find at a novelty store.

Other things I know about the iPad: some say it will revolutionize this or that, others say that it is a piece of crap because it doesn't have a camera.

I bought a little bit of Apple stock a few years ago, so I'm hoping that the "crap" thing isn't true. If all it takes to qualify as a piece of crap is the lack of a camera, 99% of everything I own is crap. In fact, I'm eating crap right now because this banana most certainly does not have a camera.

Here is a funny bit about the iPad from Mad TV that everyone has already seen.

Amazon Top 50

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


1 (-). Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 *
2 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
3 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
4 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
5 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid
6 (-). The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
7 (+2). The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear The Hunters
8 (+7). Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead
9 (+13). Naruto, Vol. 47
10 (+14). Fables Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover *
11 (+19). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
12 (-4). Watchmen
13 (-6). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
14 (-4). The Complete Persepolis
15 (-3). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
16 (+1). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
17 (-4). Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
18 (-4). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
19 (+20). V for Vendetta
20 (+14). The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
21 (+6). Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 6: Retreat *
22 (+11). Thor, Vol. 3 *
23 (-5). Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
24 (N). Seekers: Toklo's Story *
25 (-). Asterios Polyp
26 (-10). Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
27 (-16). Batman: The Killing Joke
28 (+9). Predators and Prey (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Vol. 5)
29 (-9). Batman: Arkham Asylum (15th Anniversary Edition)
30 (+2). Vampire Knight, Vol. 9
31 (R). Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned
32 (-11). The Walking Dead Book 5 *
33 (R). Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume
34 (-15). Batman: Year One
35 (+7). The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
36 (-8). Stitches: A Memoir
37 (R). Marvel Encyclopedia
38 (+2). Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Volume 8 - Destroyer
39 (R). Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 1: 1980-1982
40 (R). Tales from the Crypt #8: Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid
41 (-). Serenity, Vol. 2: Better Days
42 (R). Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles
43 (R). Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3: One Small Step
44 (-15). Stephen King's The Stand Vol. 2: American Nightmares
45 (R). Pride and Prejudice
46 (-2). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
47 (R). The Arrival
48 (-12). Black Bird, Vol. 3 *
49 (-1). The Long Way Home (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8, Vol. 1)
50 (R). Scott Pilgrim, Vol 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together


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:

* Twilight: The Graphic Novel dips down to #54 on the overall list, still good enough for 1st place on the comic & graphic novels list.

* This is the week that Amazon threw a hissy fit and stopped selling all Macmillan titles, which includes their First Second graphic novel imprint. Which may or may not have a bearing on the rankings.

* Naruto cracks the top ten, which it was not able to do back when Viz was releasing four titles at the same time. Now that it's coming out less frequent, its sales may be concentrated enough to show some charting power.

* Only one new title on the list this week: Seekers: Toklo's Story at #24.

Dummy Coughs Up a Gag

Bizarro is brought to you by Dry and Macho.

This is one of my favorite gags of late. Tons of cartoons have been done on ventriloquists, I've done quite a few myself, so the fact that I can still amuse myself with this topic is an achievement.

Notice I left any hint of blood out of this cartoon. If it had been web-only, I might have made it a bloody finger and the dummy might even have made mention of the fact that he was experiencing some anal bleeding. But for newspapers, this tasteful version is more appropriate. And maybe funnier, too.

Recently, I wrote a gag with the word "fart" in it and the crudeness of the word is such an integral part of the humor that no other word will do. But "fart" is prohibited in the newspaper comics world, so I'm out of luck. I'll have to save it for the book of adult cartoons I hope to publish one day soon. If I can find a publisher for it.

Contest Winners #17

Ladies and gendermen, boys and grills, we have our winners.

Grand Prize: Dan P (not me)
Second Place: Beezelbarb
Third Place: YazDay

Below is the winning list. If you'd like to see a graphic version with the differences circled, click here!















Join me tomorrow for more verbal ejaculations about my daily cartoons and next Thursday for another Bizarro Cartoon Puzzler Teaser Mystery Game Thing! You could be our next winner!!

Contest #17

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 the disco royalty that I think you are, 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, "Is the hat on this one is a shade lighter than the other one? Hmmm.")
4. FIRST PERSON to correctly list the 15 differences in the comments section of the post wins 4 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!

Pieces of Eight

Bizarro is brought to you today by Embarrassing History Under Glass.

Eight relatively unknown facts about pirates:

Pirates did not wear a skull and crossbones on their hats, unless they had recently raided a Halloween store.

While most pirates had parrots on their shoulders, some kept rodents in their pants.

Pirates wore a patch over one eye to save money on mascara.

Unlike their 18th century predecessors, modern day pirates do not attempt to look like Keith Richards.

Many pirates suffered severe bone damage by jamming their foot into a peg leg.

The symbol on the pirate flag, the "Jolly Roger," replaced the "Jolly Rancher" flag in 1704.

Legend has it that one pirate of particularly ruthless reputation had a spell cast on him that made him impervious to death. Many people believe that "Captain Iron Heart" still stalks the world today, spreading terror and misery with unparalleled blood lust.

As far as historians can determine, there was never a pirate called Tyler "Poopy Drawers" Cohen.

Don't forget today's contest at 7pm Eastern. Be there or be squarely elsewhere.