Dan Piraro draws the comic strip Bizarro. He used to live in Dallas. And, in fact, he used to contribute to the “print product.” I got a note from him over the weekend:
It is with a heavy heart that I write to you today. I’ve just received word that Bizarro was dropped from the Dallas Morning News, my former home town and a market I’ve been in for 20 years. I weep. If you’d like to ask them to put it back (and please do!) go to this link and send them an email. Thanks a million!
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That’s sad news — Bizarro is one of the few entertaining comics left out there. Was it truly dropped, or was it microscopically shrinked in order to make room for more Jumble? It seems that shrinking has been more of a problem for strips in recent years.
Shoot, that’s the only one I read!
Piraro’s Bizarro has been taken hostage by terrorists in Media Land. Where the dreaded viral threat is Corporate Amnesia! Warning Signs include the absence of remembrance of things past followed by dart-toss emphasis on ‘new’ (reportedly punctuated by buzz-cut words like ‘diversity’) resulting in newly diagnosable ‘miserly myopia’ where loyalty is mocked by those whose ambition is twice their talent. There is no known ‘cure’ for Corporate Amnesia but remission has been known to follow storming the castle with fan-base email torches.
Hmmm. It is still in the DMN today. Different format since the paper’s great improvement (?) was made last week. But nonetheless still there. If it does get omitted, there will be an avalanche of e:mails I am sure.
I see that LIO is loosing the vote over at the DMN and that Caveman is winning. Now this? $#@%& May as well as call it
The Dallas Morning Sports and Car Ads Paper.
Piraro is a great cartoonist — he has a great sense of style, he’s funny and topical, and his use of color is superb.