Dan Piraro

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Dan Piraro with a cardboard guitar
Dan Piraro with a cardboard guitar

Dan Charles Piraro (born 1958) is a surrealist painter, illustrator, and cartoonist best-known for his award-winning syndicated panel cartoon Bizarro. Formerly from Dallas, he went to high school at Booker T. Washington in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and dropped out of Washington University in St. Louis. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York City with his wife, Ashley. Piraro, a vegan, often presents animal rights issues in a humorous way in his comic strips.

He has received the National Cartoonist Society Panel Cartoon Award for 1999, 2000, and 2001, and been nominated for their Reuben Award several times for his work on the strip.

Since 2001, Piraro has toured the U.S. with various forms of a one-man comedy show called, "The Bizarro Baloney Show." The show won the 2002 New York International Fringe Festival award for "Best Solo Show."

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In 2002, Piraro became a vegan. Since becoming a vegan, Piraro has become a vocal activist for veganism. His activism is visible in Bizarro, often incorporating vegan and animal cruelty themes into his cartoons. Piraro has also incorporated an entire section devoted to veganism on his website, detailing his reasons for becoming a vegan and other vegan related information.

In 2007 Dan designed a limited edition tshirt 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.

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