Bizarro Among the Savages: A Relatively Famous Guy's Experiences on the Road and in the Homes of Strangers
Dan Piraro, creator of theKlibanesque comic  "Bizarro", takes an uncomfortable journey into the homes of his deranged  and well-mannered fans. Because Piraro's publishing company refused to pay for a book  tour for his most recent collection of cartoons, he came up with the potentially dangerous  idea of contacting his fan base and asking them to send him plane tickets, drive him  around, and let him stay in their homes. Before chronicling his adventures on the road,  Piraro presents a painfully funny narration of his Catholic upbringing, describing nuns as  women who "talk several times each day to invisible beings," and whose job  it is to "teach heathen children the value of mindless complicity to authority."  The second section of the book, where Piraro relates his travels among the comics fans, is  less cruelly funny but nonetheless good reading. The stories of those who were kind  enough to cart around a strange cartoonist are surprisingly touching. As an added bonus,  the spirit ofWheel of Fortune's Pat Sajak serves as Piraro's guardian angel  throughout his travels.