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  Bizarro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Though Bizarro was destroyed in the Crisis on Infinite Earths, even before his character was reintroduced in a reimagined form, the original Bizarro made a few appearances.
Bizarro World was erased from the history of the DC Universe during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Bizarro's first non-comics appearance was in the animated series "Superfriends." In this series, Bizarro was depicted almost as an outright villain, and part of the Legion of Doom; although the last season had a more faithful depiction.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bizarro   (3240 words)

  
 Bizarro (comic strip) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bizarro is a single panel cartoon written and drawn by cartoonist Dan Piraro.
Most Bizarro cartoons include a firecracker, an eyeball, a pie, a rabbit, an alien in a spaceship, and an upside down bird hidden somewhere in the cartoon.
Bizarro Among the Savages: A Relatively Famous Guy's Experiences on the Road and in the Homes of Strangers (1997) ISBN 0836221737 [non-fiction work about Piraro's experiences on his book tour]
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bizarro_(comic_strip)   (225 words)

  
 Articles by Bill Griffith
Daily comics first made their appearance toward the end of the last century primarily as a way for publishers to increase newspaper circulation.
Another factor contributing to the anemic state of contemporary daily comics is the propensity of newspapers to target their "product" at readers much in the way that politicians use focus groups to pander to constituents’ "needs".
Strips like "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer" (Ben Katchor), "Troubletown" (Lloyd Dangle), "Story Minute" (Carol Lay),"Life in Hell" (Matt Groening) and "Red Meat" (Max Cannon) are all noteworthy examples.There was a time about ten years ago when it seemed possible strips like these could find their way into daily syndication.
www.zippythepinhead.com /pages/aaarticles.html   (1004 words)

  
 Computers in Comic Books
Superman's fellow DC Comics hero, Batman, had the Batcomputer in his Batcave; this wonderful machine was an indefatigable ally in his war against crime, but it was a mechanical computer, basically an electronic card sorter, and that's where the battle line was drawn.
In comics the illusion of movement must be maintained; stationary computers are visually dull except as props, like the multitude of large mainframes that decorate the laboratory of Reed Richards, leader of Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four.
But comic books are created to be entertainment, not serious speculation; writers may use computers (or their comic book counterparts, robots and androids) as a means to critique humanity, but they are not cyberneticists.
www.atariarchives.org /deli/comic_books.php   (2429 words)

  
 Comic strip switcheroo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Comic strip switcheroo (also known as the "Great Comics Switcheroonie" or the "Great April Fools Switcheroonie") was a series of jokes played out between comic strip writers and artists, without the foreknowledge of their editors, on 1 April 1997.
Bizarro was drawn by Bill Griffith (Zippy the Pinhead).
While this prank has not occurred again with as many participating artists in newspaper comics (as of 2005), it still lives on, in online comics, where Internet cartoonists occasionally switch places with one another.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comic_strip_switcheroo   (622 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bizarro
The original Bizarro wore a button that said "Bizarro No. 1." His only weakness was blue Kryptonite, created by using the same machine to duplicate green Kryptonite.
In the Bizarro world, society is ruled by the Bizarro Code, which states that it is a crime to do anything well or to make anything perfect or beautiful.
A Bizarro Superboy was created by Project Cadmus, when they used the same process in their attempts to clone Superman.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Bizarro   (868 words)

  
 Comic Book Resources - Comic Book News, Reviews and Commentary - Updated Daily!
Of course, Bizarro’s well-known gimmick is that his worldview and habits are the opposite of the ultra-normal Superman.
Bizarro’s first comic book appearance was much later, in the pages of SUPERBOY No. 68 (October — November, 1958) -- written by Otto Binder and drawn by George Papp -- although this version was a teenage “imperfect duplicate” of Superboy rather than Superman.
Amazingly, Bizarro No. 1 deduces his origin; when Junior was playing with his duplication ray, it must have projected all the way into outer space, where it imperfectly copied Mr.
www.comicbookresources.com /columns/oddball/index.cgi?date=2003-02-10   (2039 words)

  
 The Unions: Frequently Asked Questions
I have always frowned upon comic books because while some may have slick and colorful graphics, I find the storytelling content woefully lacking in most instances, and I feel this aspect of the comic strip is more important than the graphics.
Nobody says a strip MUST be four panels long, and newer strips more often than not avoid this convention, but proportionally, both in terms of size and length, it remains ideal.
The strips were published at one time in student newspapers, but for the most part, everything was and is self-published, meaning I (with some assistance from copy store personnel) do all the copying, printing, coloring, assembly, laminating, and binding in bringing a single copy of a book into existence.
www.lava.net /~unions/faq.html   (1243 words)

  
 Bizzaro Comic Strip : This is odd....
In either post/case I Guess we now know why the comic strip is so entitled Bizaro....
There have been a rabbit face, eyeball, alien in a spaceship, fish tail, K2, crown, upside-down bird in a top hat and pie slice in the "Bizarro" strips.
The pie obviously is for Dan Piraro, creator-artist of the strip, that is, the first syllable of his last name.
www.eeggs.com /items/10992.html   (399 words)

  
 Brain Candy 6 - Interactive Fun Sites
This takes you to the web page which has been set up for that comic (usually by its syndicator.) The site can vary from a bare-bones presentation of just today's comic, to a shrine to the comic and its author, complete with a place to buy comic-related trinkets, and even original artwork.
Most of the strips are not subject to this, but some of the more popular ones are.
One of my all-time favorite comics is Bizarro, a quirky look at life by the cartoonist Piraro.
www.ecom.us.mensa.org /brain_candy/brncdy06.htm   (739 words)

  
 PEACE PARTY - Author's Forum
Other continuity strips such as Tintin and Li'l Abner worked in Indians as a weird, primitive "other." in the 1940s, the Golden Age of comic art, Indians such as Chief Wahoo got their own strips or books.
Presently, the best comic strips—if not the only comic strips—dealing with Indian subjects fairly are La Cucaracha (references to Latinos' Native roots) and For Better or Worse (aboriginal characters at Elizabeth's school).
Comic strips appear in newspapers and are generally humorous.
www.bluecorncomics.com /nastrips.htm   (765 words)

  
 The Dan Piraro Interview
Since sustained excellence like Bizarro's is rare in any medium, his willingness to shepherd his panel into its third decade is great news for comics fans and for the more than 200 papers that carry the strip.
Though Piraro maintains that Bizarro is a comic strip for people who don't read comic strips, we all know better: Bizarro is a comic strip for people who love comic strips.
Most of my cartoons that year were sort of average Bizarro cartoons, and I don't think my readers thought, "That was that year Dan was really angry." Once in a while there would be a misogynistic thread through it, but for the most part they were normal Bizarro jokes.
cagle.msnbc.com /hogan/interviews/piraro/piraro.asp   (7979 words)

  
 Veg-Parent: Bizarro's "most blatant attack yet" on fur
Dan Piraro, creator of the Bizarro comic strip, has launched what he calls his "most blatant attack yet" on fur.
Dan tells me he thinks letters of appreciation to editors who run the Bizarro strip "will help deflect the heat" -- particularly if there are more letters of appreciation than there are complaints.
Bizarro is a syndicated newspaper cartoon that appears in approximately 200 newspapers around the world.
lists.envirolink.org /pipermail/veg-parent/2004-February/000198.html   (699 words)

  
 Chester Brown, Louis Riel: a Comic Strip Biography
Brown is under no illusions that this is the definitive biography but for someone interested in the story who wants to understand the issues and events, this is a fine starting ground.
Chester Brown is a Canadian artist well known to those comic book devotees who want to dig deeper than Batman or the Hulk into the graphic storytelling format.
The comic book/graphic novel form would be one way to get young people to read history.
www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_brown_louisriel.html   (754 words)

  
 The Comic Treadmill: May 2005 Archives
Caught in the sack with two Barbies by a photographer risking his life to take a photo under less than ideal conditions (any claim that the photo is slightly blurry because the photographer was rushing the shot before his children could discover what was being done with their Barbies is another Rannian distracting tactic).
Kamandi: Over at the Kirby Comics site, Bob recently asked what your favorite Jack Kirby era is. I answered the early 1970’s at DC and Kamandi is a large part of the reason.
But generally, magic-based comics are too heavily reliant on mumbo jumbo, weak on characterization and plot-wise, writers tend to go too quickly to the “here’s the magic I just made up to resolve my story” crutch.
www.comictreadmill.com /CTMBlogarchives/2005/2005_Monthly/2005_05.php   (12809 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Purchase Comic Strip Reprints
The seventeenth collection of comic strips from the series follows the ongoing struggle of the slightly neurotic, well-intentioned Cathy with what her creator calls the ""four basic guilt groups""--food, love, mother, and career.
A new selection of comic strips from the award-winning, nationally syndicated series features Cathy's latest relationship with fitness freak Alex, ten years younger than her, and other pitfalls of being a single white female.
A collection of comic strips from the nationally syndicated cartoon follows the misadventures of the Fox family, drawn from real-life situations faced by modern kids, from baby-sitting jobs from hell to sibling rivalry on an epic scale.
www.toonopedia.com /boutique/strips.htm   (3637 words)

  
 Illustration/Cartoon Books For Sale
Borgman, now hailed as a great comic strip cartoonist as well as for his editorial cartoons, was collected here for the first time.
The original book to cover the history of comic strips, the interviews are still one of a kind glimpses at some of these cartoonists.
A collection of the comic strip Mafalda (a strip popular enough that it was translated and sold to the U.S. market for a time).
www.rtsco.com /booksale.htm   (9644 words)

  
 Electric Pocket - Press Release
NotePack is Comic Notes, a series of humorous message packs from Handtap Communications that features popular comic strip characters such as Garfield, Bizarro, Cathy and Ziggy.
Examples from the Comic Notes collection include a "To Do" stationery template featuring the image of the popular Cathy character with her trademark pile of paper on her desk, and an "It's Time" reminder note featuring a sleepy Garfield taking his frustration on a dreaded alarm clock.
Garfield, Cathy, Bizarro and other popular characters are provided by uclick, the world's largest packager and distributor of comics on the Web.
www.electricpocket.com /aboutus/press/pr010822.html   (708 words)

  
 Nukees, The Atomic Comic Strip
Sometimes in comics, a word is bolded because of "vocal emphasis," and other times its bolded because of "contextual importance." I only want to bold in the transcriptions those words that need "vocal emphasis." That means those words in which the sentence seems to mean a different thing when the word is capitalized.
As an example, in the third panel of today's comic, "bards" is a word I wanted to draw attention to, but King Luca wouldn't really be EMPHASIZING it in his speech, so it would remain lower case.
This time, it was a strip which I got to preview, in blue pencil, at Comic Con.
nukees.com   (3262 words)

  
 MikeDonovan.com | Home of the comic strip MikeDonovan.com
Josh Reads the Comics So You Don't Have To This guy keeps us all up-to-date on the daily newspaper comic strips.
Of course, this is where you can find MikeDonovan.com and a host of other syndicated comic strips.
Really cool comics (the best web comics, hence the name) and their reviews give us great quotes for our marketing.
www.mikedonovan.com /links.cfm   (194 words)

  
 PETA :: Media Center - News Releases
Piraro, whose comics appear in more than 200 newspapers around the world, infuses his work with messages about animals and the injustices that humans inflict on them.
To carry his animal-friendly messages even further, Piraro has just agreed to give Bizarro a permanent home on peta2.com, where his new cartoons will appear every other Thursday.
Piraro’s complete interview is available at peta2.com, a Web site that promotes animal rights by motivating young people to question authority, create a stink, and change minds.
www.peta.org /Automation/NewsItem.asp?id=3706   (293 words)

  
 Bizarro's Pita Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Bizarro is not sorry that he has been updating so often.
Even though me hate Star Wars, Bizarro was very sad to hear that Aunt Beru died.
That's because it was Labor Day Weekend, where on Bizarro World we have to work very hard, unlike you silly earth poeple who take day off.
web.pitas.com /bizarro   (421 words)

  
 Sclavi Tiziano: Biography
Tiziano Sclavi was born in Broni (province of Pavia) in 1953.
He now lives in Milan where he works principally as a comic strip writer.
He made his debut in the world of comics writing the texts for Gli Aristocratici in collaboration with Alfredo Castelli.
www.italica.rai.it /eng/principal/topics/bio/sclavi.htm   (320 words)

  
 Comic strip creators pull prank   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Scott and Kirkman got on the phone and found a number of artists and writers who thought a switch would be a great idea.
Since the comic strips are handled by a number of different newspaper feature syndicates, the switch-off required some negotiation.
And, where possible, they tried to pair creators with strips very different from their own.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/97/04/01/comix.0-0.html   (580 words)

  
 adores.org - comic advertising   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Comic books were a passion of mine in the 1990s.
A comical insight into the world of advertising through the antics of the Senior Account manager and Creative Director as they try to become the number one ad agency..
Cartoons & comic strips: A comical insight into the world of advertising through the antics of the Senior Account manager and Creative Director as they try to become the number one ad agency..
www.adores.org /sites/comic_advertising   (1234 words)

  
 goats: Goats News forum: The Blogger Kid From Star Trek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Apparently, some of you alerted Wil that we did a comic strip about him.
It's fairly clear that I've entered the bizarro universe when people are telling the star of Stand By Me things like "This is about the coolest kind of fame, IMHO...
If any of these people are SPs they may have a leg up in the contest.
www.goats.com /forums/news/993#12267   (572 words)

  
 Kids & Family Web Sites
Easily send comics to your friends and family via a feature on their website.
Making paper is fun, and some thing you can do at home…so make some paper and use it to write a note to a friend.
Comics, cartoons, writing, art, science, games, sports, toys, music, entertainment and stories.
www.shop50.com /kids_fam.html   (2851 words)

  
 Harry Potter News: Humor
Artist Bob Thaves has done a number on the "Harry Potter" novels by JK Rowling in today's edition of his nationally syndicated comic strip "Frank and Ernest." As advertised, it's...
Comic strip "Reality Check" couldn't resist fitting Harry Potter into today's feature.
Comic strip "Goats" has a little fun with politics, and the real-life group "Muggles for Dean" gets off the ground.
www.hpana.com /newsbrowser.cfm?tid=92&s=41   (1192 words)

  
 Lefty Comic Strip - Bizarro (Barf Alert)
It reminds me of a comic strip in a high school newspaper.
The strip is funny the vast majority of the time; that's all I want from my comic strips.
In a local newspaper some years ago, I saw an actual letter to the editor where the writer suggested that Bizarro be replaced by a comic.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/917483/posts   (818 words)

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