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Friday, October 24, 2014

Dan Piraro's Pez on Paper

Dan Piraro no longer draws his Bizarro strip on paper. Like many others, he now uses a computer. Strips created up until November 2011 had paper originals. This one from 2007 sold in January on eBay for more than his usual $600 asking price. It's a very good strip, but collectors are also mindful of the coming scarcity. When the paper originals are gone, they're gone. I'm a great fan of works on paper, and I suppose they'll always exist to some degree, but artists are going to continue to embrace digital programs and the freedom they offer to manipulate images.

Dan Piraro, Original comic strip artwork for Bizarro, July 22, 2007

http://bizarrocomics.com/2014/01/11/bizarro-original-art-for-sale

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ULTRA-RARE-BIZARRO-ORIGINAL-SUNDAY-COMIC-STRIP-DAN-PIRARO-2007-BONUS-DRAWING-/350971906118?ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123

Dan Piraro, Original comic strip artwork for Bizarro, July 22, 2007

Note: Just take a look at Dan Piraro's past appearances on this blog!

Every now and then I like to post examples of original comic strip art.

I have only one previous Pez post, and the Palace at least is not trying to hush it up.

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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Dan Piraro Plays Ball

In 1997, cartoonist Dan Piraro decorated a baseball with no fewer than three drawings. Today this Bizarro ball is being sold off from "one of the best cartoonists-drawn-on-baseball collections in the world." That's an ungainly phrase, so I think we should shorten the name of this collection to "cartoonists' balls."

EBay Listing

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BIZARRO-SIGNED-DRAWN-ON-BASEBALL-ORIGINAL-COMIC-ART-DAN-PIRARO-/271613558554?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f3d6dff1a

EBay Item Description

Note: How does one celebrate the World Series? Why, by reviewing my archive of baseball posts, of course!

You can be forgiven if you didn't realize that Dan Piraro has been seen on the blog before.

Does Garfield deserve equal time? See him in the 2005 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade where you won't see a Bizarro balloon.

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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Mad Souvenirs

Nowadays I don't spend all that much time thinking about Mad Magazine, but it was a staple of my life between the ages of 9 and 16 or so. Here is a collection of three souvenir drawings by Sergio Aragonés, Don Martin, and Don Piraro. They were recently sold on eBay for what today seems a reasonable price.