Dan Piraro

• Born — 1958 10 • Birthplace — Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. • Area — Cartoonist, painter, writer, performer • Cartoonist — y • Notable Works — Bizarro • Awards — New York International Fringe Festival Best Solo Show (2002) Reuben Award (2010) • Website — http: www.bizarro.com

Piraro was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and his family moved to Ponca City, Oklahoma when he was 4 years old. When he was in junior high school his family moved to Tulsa, where he graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1976. He dropped out of Washington University in St. Louis. He lived in Dallas and New York City for many years. He had two daughters with his first wife, and later married Ashley Lou Smith. After they divorced, he moved to Los Angeles, California. On October 30, 2016, he announced that he and his partner 'Olive Oyl' (or "O2") had purchased a house in Mexico and would be residing there beginning December 2016. Syndicated since 1985, Bizarro was appearing in 250 papers by 2006. In 2014, he hosted the Fox reality television show Utopia. Piraro has written a graphic novel, Peyote Cowboy, a story of magical realism in the Old West. He is posting it online as it is being illustrated.

Piraro describes himself as "liberal and progressive politically" and identifies as spiritual but non-religious.". His work has garnered occasional complaints, as in 2005 when he offered newspapers a politics-free version of a comic supporting gay rights. A glitch however meant that papers printing in color received the political version while those in black and white received its tamer counterpart. In 2007, Piraro designed a limited edition T-shirt for endangeredwear.com to raise money for the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, a non-profit organization committed to ending the systematic abuse of animals used for food. In a 2011 interview with This Land Press, Piraro discussed his challenges as a liberal growing up in Tulsa, OK.

• Author – Daniel J. Levitin (2016). A Field Guide to Lies (a.k.a. Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era), B06XCLKYTG