When big and complex news stories break
mid-week, expect us to be handing out p3
Certificates of Harmonic Toon Convergence like candy.
Today's toons were selected 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, Clay
Jones, Michael
Ramirez, Pat
Bagley, Matt Wuerker, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Jeff
Danziger.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium (tie): Walt
Handlesman and Mike
Luckovich.
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon
Convergence (Part 1): Matt
Davies and Nick
Anderson.
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon
Convergence (Part 2): Mike
Luckovich and Matt
Davies (h/t to Comic Strip of the Day, below).
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon
Convergence (Part 3): Darrin
Bell, Mike
Keefe, Alex
Falco, and Jim
Morin.
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon
Convergence (Part 4): Clay
Bennett and Jimmy
Margulies.
p3 World Toon Review: Michael
Kountouris (Greece) and Ingrid
Rice (Canada).
Ann Telnaes observes something
new in the way of wedding traditions. Guess that leaves
"something old, something borrowed, and something blue" for
the GOP.
Mark Fiore has a musical take on
America's apparent inability to keep
its eye on the ball.
Keith Knight isn't
impressed by the young would-be hero
of the Rebellion.
Reuben Bolling proudly
presents the return of Percival
Dunwoody, Idiot Time-Traveller from 1909.
Red Meat's Ted Johnson had
exactly
the same high school experience – exactly! – that I had.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon
uncovers something probably
more revealing about the comics creative process than anyone involved
really intended. Excelsior!
Comic Strip of the Day reflects
on the difference
in difficulty between getting angry voters to the polls and happy
ones.
The Yankees are in Chatanooga!
The roughly thirty seconds of
slouching-banjo-playing-cringing-"darkey" imagery at about
the 2:40 mark (consider yourself warned) in "Southern Fried
Rabbit" is generally considered what got the uncut version
pulled from television distribution years ago. But the short is shot
through with other bits and pieces of the old Confederacy's "special
heritage" that didn't seem to bother anyone, for example: Bugs
sings "Old Black Joe" as he happily attempts to cross the
Mason-Dixon line, the unpleasantness of less than a century earlier
is referred to by its "Lost Cause" euphemism "The War
Between the States," Yosemite Sam chivalrously protects Bugs
(who is not only the fair-haired woman named Scarlett! but also a
stand-in for the Yankees, carpet baggers, and slaves Sam's defending
her against) – and of course the central premise of the story is
that, ninety years later, the side that lost the Civil War was still
fighting, it against all logic. (Yosemite Sam's request for a song
from the minstrel Bugs very nearly steps on this
classic Mel Brooks moment from some twenty years in the future.) Directed
in 1953 by Friz Freleng from a story by Warren Foster, with voice
work by Portland's Own Mel Blanc and musical director Carl Stalling
of the p3 pantheon of
gods. Watch
"Southern Fried Rabbit" on DailyMotion.
The Big, And Getting Bigger Since We
Welcomed Back The Departed, Oregon Toon Block:
Ex-Oregonian Jack Ohman spies
something hanging
from the front of the building at 1 First Street NE.
Quite Possibly Ex-Oregonian Jen
Sorensen reminds us to consider
their point of view.
Matt Bors says:
It's
not that hard a word to say, folks.
Jesse Springer imagines a
post-legalization Oregon (tomorrow) in which tweeners would rather
play checkers than smoke pot. We'll
have what he's having.
Test your toon captioning prowess 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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