[Apologies: I finished this post on time, then accidentally left it in the draft bucket until the following Saturday. Seriously -- does nobody read this blog? Also, the failed video embed has been replaced by a link, which even Blogger currently can't mess up.]
Sure, there's all that bracket stuff (I
refuse to use "bracketology," and instead just hope it's a dumb
term that will eventually run its course and die). But there's also
staunch intelligence defender Diane Feinstein suddenly playing Spy
vs. Spy with the CIA, there are remakes of "One of Our Aircraft
is Missing" and "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are
Coming" headed to a military theater near you.
Today's toons were selected by
examining the flight data recorders from the week's offerings at
McClatchy DC,
Cartoon Movement, Go
Comics, Politico's
Cartoon Gallery, Daryl
Cagle's Political Cartoons, About.com,
and other fine sources of toony goodness.
p3 Picks of the week: Mike
Luckovich, Jack
Ohman, Steve
Kelley, Pat
Oliphant, Joel
Pett, Rob
Rogers, Ben
Sargent, Jeff
Stahler, Dana
Summers, Tom
Toles, Nick
Anderson, Jeff
Danziger, Pat
Bagley, Joe
Heller, Dave
Fitzsimmons, Matt
Wuerker, Jen
Sorenson (she had us at Miles Davis!), and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Lee
Judge.
p3 Legion of Merit: Brian
McFadden.
p3 Croix de Guerre (with rabbit
ears): Steve
Sack.
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon
Convergence: Marshall
Ramsey and Chan
Lowe.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium: Jim Morin.
p3 World Toon Review: Rod
Emmerson (New Zealand), Patrick
Chappatte (Switzerland), Petar
Pismestrovic (Austria), and Ingrid
Rice (Canada).
Happy
93rd birthday to Al Jaffee, who's been doing Snappy
Answers to Stupid Questions, and Fold-Ins, for Mad Magazine
since sometime during the Polk Adminstration! Not too long
ago, the NYTimes featured an interactive retrospective of his
fold-ins, from the 1960s until 2008 or thereabouts.
Ann Telnaes imagines CIA
Director John Brennan getting less
than he really deserves.
Who knew? Mark Fiore points out
that "Denial" really is a river in Africa!
It's the homophobes' greatest gift!
Tom Tomorrow asks the question
of the hour (the hour being sometime late Sunday morning): ¿Todos
somos Ukranians ahora?
Keith Knight knows
it's wrong, but he
can't help wishing. . . . ("Woodstock" took a minute,
but . . . ee-yeew!)
Tom the Dancing Bug brings
us the return of Percival Dunwoody, Idiot Time Traveler from 1909.
Today's episode: Rocket
cats!
Red Meat's Ted Johnson does
it for the kids.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon has
identified commando pelicans.
'Nuff said.
Comic Strip of the Day opens
with the concept of weaponized
silliness. What's not to like?
#10 on the list of the 50 greatest
cartoons as
chosen by people working in the animation industry: "King-Size
Canary," directed by Tex Avery in 1947, during his time at MGM, showcases
Avery's love of extremes – sight gags taken to their logical
extreme and then about a quarter mile farther, and animated movement
featuring eyes popping, jaws dropping, tongues spinning like window
blinds, and limbs flying hither and yon (and usually reassembling
themselves again -- watch the cat's face get temporarily dismantled). Musical director Scott Bradley had no shame about stealing quotes: "Listen to the Mockingbird" in the opening credits and later, "The William Tell Overture," "Rock-a-Bye Baby," a tiny bit of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (?), and several more. Uncredited voice work by Frank Graham as the Mouse,
and Oregon's own Pinto Colvig as the Canary. (Don't miss the brand name on the refrigerator.)
You can watch "King-Size Canary" here.The p3 Sunday Comics Read-Along: Pearls Before Swine, Doonesbury, Rhymes with Orange, Zits, Adam @ Home, Mutts, Over the Hedge, Get Fuzzy, Prince Valiant, Blondie, Bizarro, Mother Goose & Grimm, Rose is Rose, Luann, Hagar the Horrible, Pickles, Rubes, Grand Avenue, Freshly Squeezed and The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee.
The Big, But Could Be Bigger, and
Some Day Soon It Will Be, Oregon Toon Block:
Matt Bors brings
us good news from the Founding Fathers: "You're
on your own!"
Jesse Springer: Still
not loving Cover Oregon.
Test your toon captioning mojo at The
New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon
contest. (Rules here.)
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