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Artist Illustrates Bizarre And Absurd Situations In 50 Funny Comics (New Pics)
Interview With Artist
If laughing is the best medicine, then you're about to be very healthy. Dan Piraro is back with his humorous, sarcastic, and silly comics about all kinds of absurd situations. Dan's comics are very popular in over 360 newspapers and are shared all over the internet. So you've probably seen them before.
The artist has a very simplistic style that is very nostalgic and reminiscent of the old-school comics. Dan manages to create a clever storyline and do the punchline in one panel. The artist has been featured on Bored Panda before, so click here to see the previous article.
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Ploploplop 4 years ago
so, its: eyeball, pie slice, rabbit, alien in ship, K2, crown, dynamite, shoe, arrow, fish tail, upside down bird, O2 and a pipe to look for. The number of hidden items in a picture is written next to the author's signature. So this one is 1, and it is dynamite.
Michael Merrick 4 years ago
I might be misreading this but is the Sphinx sucking himself off? I don't see anything else.
On Dan's website there's some more information about him and his work: "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 as 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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icandyapple 4 years ago
Hidden objects in almost every comic. This one has dynamite. Frequently seen are dynamite, pie, fishtail, eyeball, alien, O2, K2, upside down bird, pipe, shoe, crown, and rabbit.
icandyapple 4 years ago
Oh, and if there is a number by the signature it indicates the number of hidden objects.
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Håvard Hovde 4 years ago
These comics usually have either a pie, dynamite, alien or all three in them. Funny thing to look for!
Marta Zientalak 4 years ago
They also have: demonic bunny, shoe, crown, pipe, 02, K2, and an upsidedown bird. There is a number next to signature saying how many of those are in the picture- for example here is 11.
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Alexander Lint 3 years ago
The meal has seen stuff. Its traumatized. I feel bad for the little dude.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
TNT, 🍰, K2,👽,02, pipe &...5 👑s? Or do you only count the upside down one and I'm missing 4? I've never seen multiples in the same cel.
"Dan has been a cigar-smoking vegan, animal rights activist, atheist, NRA hater, ex-husband, father, stand-up comedian, painter, former host of FOX TV’s Utopia, and philosophizing cartoonist who makes his living writing and drawing a new cartoon every day, 365 days a year. But he’s not necessarily all of those things now."
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Stephanie Keith 4 years ago
I feel this so much. With how messed up the system is and a lot of people just fighting and being at each other's throats. I don't really want to be here anymore like I'm not of Earth or a very worldly person. I just don't like it anymore in humanity has gone to crap. I just wanted to end, not in a suicidal way. But in a I just wanted to end way and be at peace. So I'm ready for it, been ready for it. I honestly don't know how much more inhumane stuff I can take or continue to see from other people. All I can say is that it wasn't supposed to be like this, it truly just was not supposed to be like this. My heart breaks because we can do better and everyone be okay, happy, healthy, and whole. Just knowing I'm in a world where there are other people actively fighting against that it's absolutely horrific. I'm genuinely scared for myself my family and everyone else. It's not going to get better so I just wanted to end.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago (edited)
When I feel like this I have to go watch "The Egg Theory of Life" by Andy Weir which is a "cartoon short" that puts Buddhism/Hinduism in a nutshell & gives me some perspective and hope that there's a point to all of this.
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just another bookish gay 4 years ago
i mean the only time i ever saw an eagle catch a fish the fish gave the eagle a bit of a ride around the river first and then the eagle hopped onto the bank, the fish still trying to swim away. so they're not all graceful.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Unlikely, bald eagles a lazy and don't fish for themselves that much. They suck
"His humor is inspired partly by his own real-life situations and partly by the eccentric thoughts that pop into his overly active mind. Dan has a rare talent for ruffling feathers with scathing commentary on the mindlessness of modern life, then smoothing them down with his disarming humor, charm, and self-deprecating humility. (His permission to post this bio notwithstanding.) His intriguing perspective on life easily flows beyond the boundaries of one-panel cartoons and into an interesting, comedic conversation about a plethora of topics. He stirs up controversy, inspires revelations, and pokes fun at everyone along the way, including himself."
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago (edited)
👀🐴Horses have the same problem👀🐴 & 🐋Whales sleep like that (vertically)🐳 Animals are so weird and awesome 😎 (The eye & TNT are well hidden this time.)
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"His fans love him, with a social reach of over 100,000 and engagement with almost 1 million fans a month. His blogs and social media sites receive tens of thousands of visitors each day. King Features distributes Bizarro on their online portal, comicskingdom.com. He has also sold a respectable number of books and won numerous awards. Bizarro won 'Best Panel Feature' from the National Cartoonists Society an unprecedented three consecutive years in 2002, 2003, and 2004. And he won again in 2016. Dan Piraro won 'Cartoonist of the Year' from the National Cartoonists Society in 2009. Bizarro has won multiple 'Genesis Awards from the Humane Society of the United States. Dan lives somewhere in Mexico with the love of his life, Christy, whom he affectionately calls 'Olive Oyl.'"
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mph seti 4 years ago
Yup. Declawing should be illegal. I believe it is in the UK, but not in the US.
Load More Replies... TheAnimalLady 4 years ago (edited)
🙀😤Anyone who causes the lifelong torture of an animal by declawing (or docking & clipping) deserves whatever happens to them🤬😾
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
I really wish that the asshole who declaw cats would have the same done to them. And no, I don´t care about your furniture or kids or whatever. Don´t get a cat if you can´t deal with them scratching!
Calvin Suzuki 4 years ago
let your cat have their nails or don’t get one at all it’s just cruel to declaw a cat :/
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Declawing is so inhumane. It's basically cutting off their fingertips.
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Marissa Taylor 4 years ago
EYE wonder if anyone will notice one pearl is different from the others
Kate Johnson 3 years ago
I've got the alien and the eyeball, but can't find the third! I like how he sometimes puts up the number of extra things above his name; I try to find everything before checking to see if there's a number.
Loretta 4 years ago
And is a spy for the little alien in the background :D
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Jennifer Davis 4 years ago
Is anybody going to aknolage the fact that in almost every picture there is an eyeball, peice of pie, and and upside down duck hidden places?
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
From what I've been told they do it for their kids. I'm guessing that someone are so obvious for the younger kids.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago (edited)
Pie under chair, cup of pee in cupboard? (From other BoredPanda post.) Totally normal with boys in the house.
PandaGirl85 3 years ago
My jeans-and-hoodie self had to google him before finding this funny. Hey, maybe Jimmy and Calvin can trade Christmas presents?
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
I see upside-down bird, pipe, TNT, eye, K2 & 02. Guessing guitar is the 7th? (New to BizarroComix.)
Dan told us how he got into art in the first place: "I have been doing some form of art virtually every day since before I can remember. Even as a 3-year-old, art was my favorite thing to do. I also played sports, explored outdoors, etc., but art was always my go-to if given a choice. Now in my 60s, I still do it every day, whether I’m being paid for it or not."
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WolfyDragon_82 4 years ago (edited)
I can see dynamite,an eye,and an UFO and I can’t find what’s the last one
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
It's pie. In the right corner.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Also the pipe, eye & UFO...but not random. The author includes them for their kids. They (among other things) are in most of their cartoons.
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Megs79DogFan 4 years ago
There's that dang eyeball and piece of pie again.. must be a trademark of Bizarro studios or something.
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The artist tells us what topics he covers: "If I can create a joke that can be drawn, any topic is fair game unless it is vulgar, discriminatory, or violent. I have some favorite topics that I return to over and again, however: cowboys and the Old West, psychology, pets, heaven, and hell, evolution."
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-alex_the_trans_demon- 4 years ago
I have a younger brother and it's definitely worth it to see the look on his face.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Jeez, I'm just asking because I'm new to Bizarro comics and am unsure which ones to find.
Load More Replies...Dan describes his drawing style "My drawing style is fairly realistic for a cartoon and my humor style is strange. That makes me a surrealist humorist, I suppose."
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"I began drawing cartoons to entertain myself when I worked at an ad agency in my early twenties. My cartoon feature, Bizarro, became syndicated when I was 27 and I’ve been publishing a joke a day ever since. That was 38 years ago and I’ve no intention of stopping anytime soon. I love my work and I love art. I’d do it even if I wasn’t getting paid."
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WholesomeArmyweeb 4 years ago
Imagine it being like “heeeres jOhnNy!” And popping up with an axe
Ariana Breeden 3 years ago
Idk why people downvote ur comments, theres nothing wrong with them...
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Here is some advice to people who want to create art: "Creativity is the human species’ defining characteristic. If we are not creating something, we are not fulfilling our highest potential. It doesn’t have to be 'ART' it can be anything that you are inspired to do: cooking, gardening, carpentering, music, writing, needlework, designing, you name it. Just do it!"
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Yes, the original was brass, but it's been cast & sculpted many times, sizes & ways.
giulia monteguti benelli 1 year ago
Dead Lord, just enjoy the cartoon, it's not a "teachable moment"
Karen Fox 4 years ago
Bronze not brass...and that is CAST not sculpted- therefore there needs to be an original SCULPTURE- which is the used to make a mold that is used to make a wax form that is then made into CAST BRONZE using the lost wax method...been used thousands of years B.C.E. Sorry, just saying...if we want to get specific lets BE CORRECT -Or short version = there WAS an original SCULPTURE before it was cast in bronze
Katchen 4 years ago
You’re right, Karen. I commented what you did before seeing your comment. Sometimes the comments don’t all load at first.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Their SILHOUETTES are similar because of: 1)Batman's hood & Satan's horns. 2)Batman's cape & Satan's wings... So the "BAT SIGNAL" could potentially be for either one. Plus, the police wouldn't be "Summoning Satan" as he's the opposite of their purpose in life.
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"I grew up in the United States but came to love international travel when I visited Europe at age 20. Happily, my cartooning career has allowed me to travel to many places around the world. Five years ago, I moved away from the U.S. permanently and now live in Central Mexico. The differences in culture and the challenges of learning a new language have been thrilling and are inspiring me to create art of all sorts that is very different than my work with Bizarro," the artist tells us more about himself.
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Jennifer Davis 4 years ago
Is anyone going to realize that there is either an eyeball, a piece of pie, a firework, or an upside down duck hidden in almost all of these??
mph seti 4 years ago
It's a thing that all Bizarro comics have, and has been going on for years (maybe decades). Anyone who's a fan knows.
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Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)
K2 (up and left in the comic, above the signature)
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CometTamer 3 years ago
I'd think that being smaller like that would let him move quicker and strike faster
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Stephanie Keith 4 years ago
You are so right about that. It's sad truly sad.
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Dan Farther 4 years ago
If I did the math right, assuming you work 40 hours every single week for the rest of your life, it’ll take a little over 60 years to complete
Jennifer Fitch 4 years ago
There are hidden objects in each comic. The number by the signature is how many objects that are hidden.
Load More Replies... "Shortly after moving to Mexico, a few scenes of a story popped into my head while I was drawing my daily cartoons. I wrote them down but didn’t know what it was or why this piece of a story suddenly came to me. Sometime later, a few more scenes appeared in consciousness so I wrote those down, too. The scenes began to come more quickly and often and I realized I was writing a story. But the story seemed very clearly to be coming from somewhere else. It took me a few years of working off and on to finish the story and now I am illustrating it and posting it online, free for anyone to read as it is being created. When I have finished illustrating the story, I’ll publish it as a book. I can honestly say the whole experience has been more exciting than anything I’ve ever worked on. https://peyotecowboy.net"
#24
Something 4 years ago
If he'd taken the olive oil some people use, that can be sprinkled on a salad.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Huh? Did this post under the wrong comment? (I've seen it before, usually the exact same comment under different posts in the same article.)
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
I see the alien👽, 02, eye, TNT, pie, pipe & shoe but don't know what the 8th is to look for it. Anyone else know?
Unnamed Hooman 4 years ago
Read their voices in a heavy New York accent and try not to smile (not in a bad way! I love those accents and they just fit perfectly in this scene)
Jacob Ross 4 years ago
Huh. I used to read Bizarro all the time back in the day. Haven't cracked open a newspaper in probably 6 years since the Oregonian cut its print size to almost nothing. Looks like Wayne has really altered his style. Not bad.
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WholesomeArmyweeb 4 years ago
The dog looks like *inser graystillplays voice* “IM GOING TO RIP YOUR FLESH FROM YOUR BONES”
Bird lover 4 years ago
damn gray is the best. the only person who can say yeet in 2021
Load More Replies... CometTamer 3 years ago
That is exactly the look i expect Saint Peter to have when I get there. Exasperated and so far beyond tired he needs a thousand year vacation.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Just me or does he look like he's about to bite the finger? And glad about it.
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tuzdayschild 4 years ago
I'm sorry you're not ok. Try to find a professional you can talk to Wholesome.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago (edited)
I think it'd be specially funny if it was on a plate with donuts, right?
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I see the alien👽, TNT (good one), K2 (must be one, it's repeated), 02 in lost(?), and crown (for badge). What am I missing? (If the 7 by the signature really means how many to find.) I'm new to Bizarro comics but I paint hidden objects into my murals so I love this. I grew up reading "Highlights" magazine.
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Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Try smoking and drinking and drugs and getting on the wrong side of the mob.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
That's the TNT I mentioned, same thing--different name.
Load More Replies... TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Also called TNT for the Trinitrotoluene it's made from.
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Cecilia Herrera 4 years ago
The "original" would have made him infamous, instead of famous for his painting.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago (edited)
Fun Fact: the couple were his sister and his dentist. He said he painted them as father & daughter.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Dad jokes are awesome, funny without the meanness too many "jokes" have nowadays.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Accountants chart economic rises and falls on graphs that look like this (minus flies).
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CometTamer 3 years ago (edited)
Plot twist: Derek later found a backup band called The Dominoes
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Rae Reyn 4 years ago
there is an entire wing in the mental hospital filled with ice cream truck drivers, in their straight jackets, rocking and humming 'pop goes the weasel'
Bill 4 years ago
The song is "Turkey in the Straw" and a has a very bad past.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago (edited)
Love the "eye"scream cone & the "TNT"pop next to the bomb-pop 😹 (&found the pipe, 🍰&👽).
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago (edited)
They "hide" things in the picture for their kids. K2, 02, 🐰 👑 🍰 TNT 👞 👁👽, pipe, upside-down bird, a fishtail, etc.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
😬Just looove the way they incorporated the TNT right NEXT TO the baby with the giant eye picture staring down at the poor thing😳
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
Piraro includes the dynamite, eye, a slice of pie, and a hamster in all of his comics. They're signals to his kids that he's thinking of them.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
She'll be fine, but will we?!? This (unfortunately) is why we rarely use Pitbull type breeds for Service Dogs. It doesn't go over well in public. (Pitties are excellent animals IF they're bred properly & TRAINED, just like every other breed.)
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Collette Francis 4 years ago
Thanks, I actually didn't get this one (blame the baby brain)
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Marta Zientalak 4 years ago
No TNT this time. There is eye, alien, K2 and a pie.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
I couldn't handle the dog staring much less an alien and a random eyeball 😬
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
And if there is a number by the signature, that's how many "hidden" pictures are in that particular cel. Three for this one...upside-down 🐦, K2 & 🍰.
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Jess Thompson 4 years ago
I’ve often thought prison might not be the worst thing….well except the South American ones, no siree
Jacob Ross 4 years ago
I'm autistic and have anxiety , ADHD and bipolar disorder. The Onion used to have this segment called "autistic reporter." The dude interviewed a prisoner who described prison life and the autistic reporter decided that he wanted to live in prison. Funny thing, it doesn't sound all that bad to me, either.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago (edited)
Found K2, pipe, eye, crown & that 🤪🐰. And that picture of fishtail? Is that the other?
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
It's his day off so his brother is "filling in" for him.
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Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
I dont mind if u wanna wear your pants like that I honestly dont care but be on the lookout for people who will murder you for it
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
And you can't run away because you're pants are around your ankles by then.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
But what about dogs and steak? (I mean cattle.)
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Hugh Walter 4 years ago
Oh no - Nobles are full of bile and venom, peasants just have a tinge of despair!
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Cecilia Herrera 4 years ago
The item on the wall is a game called, "Operation." You use the game's tool to remove "body parts" such as, bread basket, wishbone, Adam's apple, and so forth,(without touching the sides of the removal area.)
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Hermione Granger 4 years ago
I say happy holidays if i don’t know what the person celebrates. I don’t believe in any particular deity, but I do celebrate Christmas.
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Suzanne Clark 4 years ago
Maybe a bit of a stretch, but it could be that's the eye on her purse.
Load More Replies... François Carré 4 years ago
In the Captain Fantastic movie with Viggo Mortensen, the family officially celebrates Noam Chomsky's birthday instead of Christmas.
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Does this actually work in any other language than English? Because in mine "Vianoce" has nothing to do with any religion as far as name goes.
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AJ the hedgehogger 3 years ago
I would send one of my friends to buy me a burger and I would done the other path.
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Mia Smith 4 years ago
I see it on his shirt, upper (our) right, next to the sleeve.
Load More Replies... Kate Johnson 3 years ago
You don't know that she was that unhappy about making a little centaur, AJ. She may have been like 🐎+🤪😍🤤
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Mona lisa Jackson 4 years ago
lmao the poster in the back that show a bird playing a saxophone
Dinah Brand 4 years ago
Maybe a shout out to Charlie "The Bird" Parker, saxophonist extraordinaire.
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Kate Johnson 3 years ago
My Dad did when I was little. He also got a two-seater bicycle and it also had a child seat. ❤❤❤ My Dad's so cool. 😊
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What do you think ?
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago (edited)
Welcome to the comments! Now, scroll back up and look for: pie, dynamite, crown, eyeball, pipe, alien, K2, and upside down bird. Have fun! (Hope I didn´t miss any.)
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago (edited)
That crazy rabbit, fishtail, 02 & shoe.
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turtledove 4 years ago
i got halfway through before i realized i get these same comics in the paper lol
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago (edited)
Welcome to the comments! Now, scroll back up and look for: pie, dynamite, crown, eyeball, pipe, alien, K2, and upside down bird. Have fun! (Hope I didn´t miss any.)
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago (edited)
That crazy rabbit, fishtail, 02 & shoe.
Load More Replies... turtledove 4 years ago
i got halfway through before i realized i get these same comics in the paper lol
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