[Update, Monday morning: Broken links fixed.]
First, although it hasn't been pretty, the web editing process here at p3 galactic headquarters seems to be back more or less on track in far less time than seemed likely earlier this afternoon. Yes!
Also, just in time for the holidays, two more airlines are merging, giving the grateful American traveling public one-stop access to piratical pricing, hidden fees, indifferent service, lost luggage, and cramped seating.
The go-to theme of the week, of course, was the (by one blogger's count) eight instance of “Obama's Katrina,” including one attribution that was made in the summer before Obama was first elected. I picked a couple of the only a few of the many toons that went there. The meme is way, way, overdone, and frankly, most of the toons that relied on it were pretty ho-hum.
Today's toons were mixed with bread crumbs, oysters, celery, turkey livers, broth, and spices, shoved inside a 14-lb turkey carcass and cooked for 6 hours in a pre-heated oven at 325 degrees, using ingredients hand-selected from the week's offerings at McClatchy DC, Cartoon Movement, Go Comics, Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoons, About.com, Politico's Cartoon Carousel, and other fine sources.
p3 Picks of the week: Mike
Luckovich, Jack
Ohman, Clay
Bennett, Jim
Morin, Chris
Weyant, Jeff
Danziger, Joel
Pett, Signe
Wilkinson, Pat
Bagley, Mario
Piperni, Matt
Wuerker, Jen
Sorenson, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Chris
Weyant.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium (tie): Shlomo
Cohen and Jeff
Danziger.
p3 World Toon Review: Kevin
Kellauger (England), Oliver
(Austria), Mohammad
Saba'aneh (Palestinian Territories), and Luke Watson (Australia).
Ann Telnaes brings
a treat that everyone here at p3 has
been waiting for: The
Return of the Evil Old Bastard. (Fun fact: You know how you know
when the EOB is lying? His lips are animated.)
Sing
along with Mark Fiore: Who
lives like a Randian under the sea?
Taiwan's Next Media Animation
covers the funniest
and most deserved disaster of the week.
Tom Tomorrow explores
the political importance of the
passive voice.
Keith Knight has
a simple
proposal.
Tom the Dancing Bug unveils
a new line of trading collectibles for America's
favorite sport.
Red Meat's Milkman
Dan does little Karen a
solid.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon goes
to Dick Tracy for the oddly-dated pop culture references, but stays
for the unexpected
Harrison Ford cameo.
Comic Strip of the Day tours
some of the exhibits, including founding documents, at the
newly-opened Billy
Ireland Cartoon Museum and Library at Ohio State University. (Day
two is here.)
The yams did it! The yams did it!
Daffy Duck wrestles with his
conscience, as well as Tom the Turkey, in “Tom Turk and Daffy,”
directed in 1944 by Chuck Jones, story by Michael Maltese and Tedd
Pierce, plus voice work by Portland's own Mel Blanc and (uncredited)
Billy Bletcher as Tom. Bletcher was a face and voice you might not
recognize now, but you'd have known him back
in the day.
The Big, but Could Be Bigger, Oregon
Toon Block:
Matt Bors
examines ways to achieve greater government synergy
and efficiency.
Test your toon captioning mojo at The
New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon
contest. (Rules here.)
2 comments:
Unfortunately, all of the links omitted the ":" after "http".
Fixed. Thanks.
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