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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 comments to follow. 

Since 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.

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Hola, Jazz Pickle. Thanks for pointing your pickle at us.

We like to add new products to our King Features’ Comics Kingdom shop from time to time, but we’re not sure what you, the Pickle Public, would like to see. Will you help?

If you have an idea for a bit of Bizarro swag of some kind, please tell us about it in the comments section.

I was thinking maybe a few shirts with my Bizarro Sunday title panels on them might be fun. Would anyone be interested in that? If so, have a look at the handful I picked out below, and vote for the ones you like best by the number on the lower corners. (Or suggest something else you’d like to see.)

Vote for as many as you like. If you don’t think you’d want a shirt like that, please refrain from voting. Whatever your thoughts on this, we’d love to hear your feedback in the comments section. We’re always looking for ways to replace our income from the erstwhile newspaper industry.

(I read all comments before posting them, so if you don’t want me to publish your comment, just say so and I’ll keep it off the site.)

Thanks a llama, Jazz Pickles. We’re eternally grateful for your support. You’re the smartest and coolest readers in the entire comics kingdom!

Thank you for your attention to this blather. Now, on to Wayno’s Bizarro comics for the week!

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I’m a longtime meditator and this happens to be my exact technique.

I’m having trouble believing she’s hearing anything.

If I were God, I’d give myself much more hair.

I suspect he’s stoned. (I couldn’t help it. I’m a dad.)

For you non-musicians, these are not the kind of “bass” you’d see on a seafood menu.

As they say inside the hill, being an ant is no picnic. Except when it is.

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That’s the bell for the final lap, Jazz Pickles. Don’t forget to vote for one or more of the images above for a shirt if you’re into that kind of thing. If you enjoy that we offer our work here for free, please consider saying thanks via the options below. We’ll make sure the Guru Bot adds karma points to your permanent record.

The Naked Cartoonist…My every-other-week creative-writing subscription service.

Limited edition, signed & numbered prints of BIZARRO CARTOONS, and some ORIGINALS!

Bizarro TIP JAR …One-time or repeating. Your choice!

WAYNO’S TIP JAR …One-time or repeating. Your choice!

My (free) graphic novel in progress, PEYOTE COWBOY.

Watch my PITCH VIDEO and become a supporter of Peyote Cowboy here.

Super fun BIZARRO SWAG from ComicsKingdom, including our 2026 Bizarro wall calendar. (ALL the comics are still funny, no matter what month it is now!)

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The penultimate great political fiction in this series is not strictly a fiction: it’s Annie Ernaux’s retelling of her own life in The Years (2008), thereby recapturing the story of France in the second half of the twentieth century. How can one woman’s story stand in for all the others? What does this book tell us about the passing of political time? Why do the years 1968 and 1981 mark the end of idealism? What comes next?

Join us on Friday 19th June at the Regent Street Cinema in London for the final film in our current season: a screening of Never Let Me Go followed by a live podcast recording with geneticist and science writer Adam Rutherford. Tickets available now https://bit.ly/4x641XC

You can find out everything you need to know about this podcast – who we are, what we do, plus merch, events and full lists of all episodes including PPF+ bonus episodes on our website https://www.ppfideas.com

Next Time in Great Political Fictions: HHhH

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Na última sexta os EUA proibiram o uso do modelo de IA mais poderoso da Anthropic por "estrangeiros". Você não leu errado. O critério da proibição é nacionalidade, algo inédito nesse contexto. Mesmo quem mora nos EUA mas não tem cidadania está proibido de usar o modelo. Estão banidos também os próprios funcionários estrangeiros da empresa. Leia mais (06/13/2026 - 23h00)

Leitores desta coluna já sabem que o deputado bolsonarista Filipe Barros (PL-PR) apresentou um projeto de lei (PL 4395/2024) para elevar a cobertura do FGC e salvar o Banco Master. Graças à coluna da jornalista Malu Gaspar, agora sabemos que sua atuação a favor do banco de Vorcaro foi muito mais longe. E pode ter envolvido Eduardo Bolsonaro. Leia mais (06/13/2026 - 21h58)

Não sei se sabem, mas começou a Copa do Mundo. Podem ter-vos escapado as reportagens sobre o início da Copa. Foram só duas ou três. Sinto que não tenho informação nenhuma. Desta vez, é uma verdadeira Copa do Mundo, porque todo o mundo vai estar presente. Quarenta e oito seleções. Leia mais (06/13/2026 - 16h00)

Apertei o interfone, o portão se abriu e caminhei até o prédio, onde uma senhora me aguardava segurando a porta. Hesitei. Seria uma moradora gentil ou uma porteira solícita? Não era simples curiosidade, a resposta tinha consequências práticas. Fosse ela a porteira, eu precisava dizer meu nome, o nome do amigo que tinha ido visitar e aguardar a liberação. Fosse uma moradora, bastava um "obrigado" e seguir pro elevador. Leia mais (06/13/2026 - 13h15)

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Ganhei de um amigo uma coletânea de textos curtos, relatos e crônicas de viagem de Walter Benjamin. "Autoportraits du Rêveur" (autorretratos do sonhador, ed. de L'Herne) é na verdade a reedição de uma tradução publicada na França em 2012, mas que, de lá para cá, em contraposição ao culto da autoimagem (expressão, controle e promoção da imagem de si alçada a crença e lugar-comum), só justifica ainda mais a ênfase no papel do sonhador. Leia mais (06/12/2026 - 10h00)