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Daniel Charles Piraro (born 1958)〔("Inside View" ), ''Los Angeles Times'', February 10, 1985.〕 is a painter, illustrator, and cartoonist best known for his award-winning syndicated cartoon panel ''Bizarro''. Piraro's cartoons have been reprinted in 16 book collections (as of 2012). He has also written three books of prose. Piraro was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and his family moved to Ponca City, Oklahoma〔http://bizarrocomics.com/2013/08/05/ups-and-downs/〕 when he was 4 years old. When he was in junior high school his family moved to Tulsa,〔David Zizzo, ("Cartoonist fueled by life’s twists" ), ''The Oklahoman'', November 23, 2008.〕 where he graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1976.〔Jason Ashley Wright, (Here today: gone bizarro: Tulsa's own funny man returns for a couple of gigs—one clean, one not so. ), ''Tulsa World'', November 9, 2010.〕 He dropped out of Washington University in St. Louis.〔John Marshall, ("A moment with... Dan Piraro, 'Bizarro' cartoonist" ), ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', May 1, 2006.〕 He lived in Dallas and New York City for many years and currently resides in Los Angeles after separating from his wife, Ashley Lou Smith.〔(Powell's Books: Piraro, Dan. ''Bizarro and Other Strange Manifestations of the Art of Dan Piraro'' )〕 Syndicated since 1985,〔Lana Berkowitz, ("Dan Piraro's symbols: What do they mean?" ), ''Houston Chronicle'', May 26, 2008.〕 ''Bizarro'' was appearing in 250 papers by 2006.〔Alex Chun, ("Torn from pages of his comic strip" ), ''Los Angeles Times'', April 13, 2006.〕 In 2013, Piraro coined the idiom "New Artists" to represent those cartoonists who distribute their work directly onto the Internet, without the use of a syndicate or a business intermediary. 〔http://bizarro.com/tag/jimmy-ho/〕 In 2014, he is hosting the Fox reality television show ''Utopia''. ==Political views== Piraro describes himself as "liberal and progressive politically".〔 His cartoons have occasionally drawn some complaints about his politics, as in 2005, when a cartoon he drew in support of gay marriage was sent to all papers publishing the color version without an alternative caption he had intended to supply to papers wishing to avoid the issue.〔("Double Trouble for Syndicated Cartoonist: Alternative text for a gay marriage Bizarro panel fails to reach some newspapers." ), AP in ''Los Angeles Times'', August 14, 2005.〕 In 2002, Piraro became a vegan. His activism is visible in ''Bizarro'', often incorporating vegan and animal cruelty themes into his cartoons. In an interview, he stated, "If you look at my strip over the years, I’ve always had a form of animal sympathy and animal rights."〔("Mondo Bizarro: The Dan Piraro Interview," ''Hogan's Alley'', 2010 )〕 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, 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 some of the troubles he faced as a liberal growing up in Tulsa, OK.〔("Dan Piraro is Not a Redneck" ), Abby Wendle on This Land Press, August 8, 2011.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dan Piraro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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