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🗓️ 26 January 2015
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Dan is a cigar-smoking vegan, animal rights activist, atheist, NRA hating, ex-husband, father, stand-up comedian, painter, former host of FOX TV’s “Utopia,” philosophizing cartoonist who makes his living writing and drawing a new cartoon every day, 365 days a year.
If you have ever seen Dan Piraro’s critically acclaimed comic Bizarro (and you have: it is published daily in over 360 papers), you know that he doesn’t see the world like the rest of us do. His single panel gems are a unique concoction of surrealistic imagery, social commentary, and witty plays on words. Indeed, if Salvador Dali, Garry Trudeau and Oscar Wilde had an illegitimate child, that child would be Dan Piraro.
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0:00.0 | A lot of my cartoons are dark. |
0:01.8 | Right, so that's why I wanted to ask you, |
0:03.6 | if life is dark, can you be dark in your work? |
0:06.5 | I have, in fact. |
0:07.7 | Yeah. |
0:09.0 | Sem разные. |
0:36.8 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition. |
0:38.7 | of tangentially speaking, I'm Chris Ryan, your host. My guess this week is the great cartoonist |
0:46.0 | Dan Pirraro. He does a bizarro, which is syndicated all over the country. Dan's an incredibly |
0:53.7 | talented person, as you're going to, you're going to hear he's not only just a all around |
0:59.3 | brilliant guy and one of the most successful cartoonists in the country. He's also an |
1:05.5 | extraordinarily good painter. I don't have any images to show you. I don't know if he's got his |
1:10.6 | paintings up on his website. I haven't looked around that much at his website, but go to his |
1:18.2 | website. He's got a blog there. He's got all sorts of stuff. It's bizarro.com, B-I-Z-A-R-R-O.com. You'll |
1:29.8 | see who we're talking about. At the time, this interview was recorded probably six weeks ago, |
1:36.3 | something like that. I didn't know that he was also a musician, so we didn't really talk about |
1:40.8 | music at all. But subsequent to the interview, I came across an EP that he had put together and |
1:48.4 | released. I think it was last year. It's called No Big Thing. You can find it on Amazon. |
1:54.6 | At the end of this intro, I'll play you out with a cut from that EP called It's Our Time. |
2:02.6 | But before that, just to catch up on stuff, I've had a crazy week. I flew to Spain, had to sign |
2:09.8 | some papers, do some legal stuff there. It could only be done in person. So essentially, I flew |
2:15.8 | to Spain in order to walk into an office, sign a couple of things, and then walk out and fly home. |
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