Vegetarian Star

Dan Piraro is known for his humorous cartoons that illustrate vegetarian and animal welfare issues.

A vegan since 2002, he’s celebrating his 10,000th cartoon and is currently on his “Bizarro’s 10,00th anniversary tour,” doing an interview with media before each major stop, such as the one given to the Times Herald Online.

If  you’re still deciding on whether to spend your money on Piraro’s show or JLo’s, the cartoonist has a bit of advice.

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Patrick McDonnell

“Why not become vegetarian? That’s the question. I’ve been vegetarian for more than 20 years and it was the best decision I ever made. A couple of weeks into it, I felt better. My head felt clearer.

—Patrick McDonnell, creator of the comic strip Mutts, which details the daily life of a house cat named Mooch and a dog named Earl. McDonnell has an interview in the July/August 2010 issue of Vegetarian Times, available at your nearest Whole Foods stand now.

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Like cartoonist’s Dan Piraro‘s humor combining vegetarian issues and animal rights? There’s an app for that!

The vegan who runs Bizarro.com has an iphone application that allows users to download a fresh comic every day.

“Boy, am I excited about it! I’ve been working for months with some very cool app designers here in NYC and we’ve come up with a new innovation in the comics-for-phones field!” Piraro blogged.

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Cartoonist Dan Piraro attended the launch party for Alicia Silverstone‘s book, The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet at Candle 79 vegan restaurant in New York City.

Dan is the founder of Bizarro.com, a website containing his cartoons that often depict vegetarian/vegan/animal rights issues.

Was Dan the only vegan special enough that night to get a pic taken with Alicia?

The Kind Diet is set for release October 13.

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Awhile back, Moby wondered if zombies would eat vegans, after one was captured escaping a car.

Now, we know the answer, thanks to cartoonist Dan Piraro.

Zombies are vegans.

Dan tweeted this lovely little Haiku poem that explains zombies go for the grains.

The vegan zombie

Cares not for sweet grey matter

They cry out for “grains.””

Always nice to get things resolved.

Check out some of Dan’s cartoons at bizarro.com.

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Felix M. Cobos on Flickr

Scott Adams, creator of the popular office cartoon series, Dilbert, has started a series of blog posts about his ideal city, Cheapatopia.

Cheapatopia sounds a little like a town populated by the Goode family.

Everything is powered by renewable energy, there’s a strict no smoking and no junk food policy to keep health insurance rates down, and the goal is to “do more with less” while reducing consumerism.

You also never have to shovel snow and gain points for good deeds that can be redeemed for services like babysitting.

And the backbone of social interaction in Cheapatopia is the Internet. Ah, a blogger’s dream.

Of course, in an ideal world, a completely vegetarian city would do wonders for health insurance rates, but Adams doesn’t want to tick too many people off.

“I’ll stop short of suggesting that everyone must be a vegetarian, but only because that’s such a hot button.”

Hey, if this is an imaginary world, why not keep calling the shots?

In Cheapatopia, why not make every kind of animal meat available in the veg variety, still tasting like the real thing?

Would genetically altering everyone’s taste buds to dislike meat altogether be too artificial for the goal of  “simplifying” the community and lives of the citizens?

Read more about Collective Buying Power and the Homes of Cheapatopia on Scott Adam’s blog.

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Cartoonist Dan Piraro has penned a letter to officials at St. Louis Children’s Hospital for using cats as dummies in their pediatric intubation training sessions.

Trainees in the Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) force plastic tubes down cats’ throats to prep them for performing the medical procedure on a real human one day.

This is done even though the sponsor of the course, American Heart Association (AHA), exclusively recommends practicing on manikins and similar types of simulators.

What’s more, the AHA has distanced itself from facilities that continue to practice this archaic method!

Piraro wrote a letter that appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that read, “It doesn’t take a medical degree to recognize that practicing intubation on a limp cat is nothing like doing the same procedure on a larger, crying, squirming and/or coughing human child.”

And so was the creative juice for the above cartoon.

via peta.org

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“It is hard sometimes because some have such great personalities, but you get used to it. It becomes a mind-set where we known these two are staying, these two are going. I also know I’m doing a good thing, because if I kept them, pretty soon I’d have no room to foster anymore. So, I’m saving a lot of lives by sending them along.”

—Vegan Cartoonist Dan Piraro, in an interview with Vegetarian Times for the July/August issue. Dan and his wife, Ashley Lou, bring a zoo of animals into their homes to care for until homes are found. Check out his comics at bizarro.com.

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