In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
Douglas Adams,
The Hitchhiker's
Neo-confederates are campaigning on a
reduction, if not an end, to federal power over the states, but let
one ebola patient make his way into the former Republic of Texas, and
suddenly everyone's sense of shared values be damned – it's time to
freak out! Why hasn't Obama (that implacable gun-confiscating
dictator who can't keep fence-jumpers out of the White House) stepped
in with the full power of the CDC (whose budget has been under
constant attack for years by congressional Republicans) to save their
Lone Star State asses? Haven't you turned on the TV, people? Panic!
Today's toons were selected by a
computer set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health,
sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross section of necessary
skills 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 cartoon goodness.
p3 Picks of the week: Mike
Luckovich, Jeff
Danziger, Joel
Pett, Ted
Rall, Drew
Sheneman, Scott
Stantis, Gary
Varvel, Lalo
Alcaraz, Nick
Anderson, Darrin
Bell, Clay
Bennett, Stuart
Carlson, Milt
Priggee, Matt
Wuerker (see CSOTD, below),
and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Pat
Bagley.
p3 Legion of Merit: Dan
Wasserman.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation From
Another Medium: David
Fitzsimmons.
p3 World Toon Review: Kevin
Kallaugher (England), Ingrid
Rice (Canada), Petar
Pismestrovic (Austria), and Tjeerd
Royaards (Netherlands).
Ann Telnaes examines the
nature of sacrifice.
Mark Fiore suspects that we're
not focusing in on the
right White House security issue.
Tom Tomorrow unveils his Grand
Unified Theory of Panic.
Keith Knight throws
a flag! Illegal deity!
Tom the Dancing Bug reminds
us: At the Institute, they
claimed Stockman was mad
. . . !
Red Meat's Bug-Eyed Earl is,
perhaps, gearing
up for next week's European Genocidal Wars of Territorial
Conquest Against Indigenous Peoples Day.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon
answers a question I've had for a long time, regarding
clams.
Comic Strip of the Day discusses
the importance of cultural literacy in cartooning, with reference to
recent works by Matt
Wuerker, Jim Morin, Darren Bell . . . and Jerry
Holbert.
All you sinners drop everything!
"Swing You Sinners,"
directed by Dave Fleischer in 1930, is built around the popular song
"Sing You Sinners" (featured that year in a Lillian Roth
film, and on Tony Bennett's 2006 "Duet" album). Billy
Murray voiced Bimbo, the dog, whose girlfriend was Betty Boop (when
she still had those bizarre dog ears), soon took over the series
(sans ears) and later provided the launching pad for the even more
successful Popeye cartoons. (Got that?)
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, The Brilliant Mind
of Edison Lee, and Jumble.
The Big, And Getting Bigger Since We
Made Our Peace With Cheating And Welcomed Back The Departed, Oregon
Toon Block:
Ex-Oregonian Jack Ohman goes for
the easy
lay-up.
Maybe Ex-Oregonian Jen Sorensen
notes that hindsight isn't 20-20; it's more like about 2050.
Matt Bors presents:
The Few, The
Proud . . . The Few . . .
Jesse Springer doubts
that local Oregon towns plan to tax marijuana will make much of a
dent in the black market.
Test your toon captioning superpowers
at The New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon
contest. (Rules here.)
And you can browse The New Yorker's cartoon gallery here.
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