Bizarro by Dan Piraro was first syndicated in 1985 and continues to be the highest-rated comic among his close friends and family.
Piraro has published around 18 or 20 books of cartoons, art, and humor. When he is not failing to remember the exact number of books he’s published, he paints, composes and performs music, does stand-up comedy, and shouts at idiots on his television. In 2014, Piraro became one of those idiots as the on-screen host and narrator of the most expensive prime-time reality show produced to that date, Fox TV’s Utopia. The show was awful and justifiably canceled after only three months. Sources close to the network assured Piraro it was not his fault. (Whatever. He can’t stand reality TV, anyway.)
Bizarro won an unprecedented three consecutive Reuben Awards for “Best Cartoon Panel” from the National Cartoonists Society in the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, was nominated again in 2006 and 2007, and won again in 2015. In 2010, Piraro won the NCS’s highest award, “Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.”
In 2016, Piraro moved to central Mexico and on Jan 1, 2018, announced his semi-retirement from cartooning and is now only doing the weekly Sunday cartoon. Since then, the Monday-Saturday Bizarro cartoons are the handiwork of Dan’s longtime friend, colleague, and occasional collaborator, Wayno. Piraro now paints (almost) full time under the name Diego Piraro. His fine art can be seen on diegopiraro.com and on IG @diegopiraro.
Dan comments weekly on both his and Wayno’s cartoons from his blog at Bizarro.com.