(Update: Happy 91st birthday to Marvel Comics impresario Stan "The Man" Lee! Excelsior!)
What's been happening this week? Well,
Vladimir Putin is putting on the most transparent pre-Olympics PR
offensive to disguise the corruption and oppression in his country
since . . . China's pre-Olympics PR offensive in 2012.
It may turn out that the only thing
that the Absentee Congress could do to lower their popularity, after
bailing out of DC for Christmas with SNAP and Unemployment Insurance
unfunded would be to come back to Washington next month.
And, while we're on the subject, what
color is your Santa Claus?
Today's toons were lovingly
hand-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, Jack
Ohman, Matt
Davies. Dave
Fitzsimmons, Jeff
Danziger, Tony
Auth, Lisa
Benson, Mario
Piperni, Matt
Wuerker, Jen
Sorenson, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Ben
Sargent.
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon
Convergence: Joel
Pett and Rob
Rogers.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium: Walt
Handlesman.
p3 World Toon Review: Martyn
Turner (Ireland) and Patrick
Chappatte (Switzerland).
Top Toons of 2013, from
About.com
and the Washington
Post,
Ann Telnaes covers the
real war on Christmas.
Mark Fiore watches Congress
learn the
true meaning of Christmas – a day late and many, many dollars
short.
Taiwan's Next Media Animation
presents the seven most dreadful words on earth: It's
never too early for an iPad.
Tom Tomorrow presents 2013 in
Review: Part
1. Spoiler: It was already looking bad on January 7th.
Keith Knight goes
there. Oh yes, he goes there.
Tom the Dancing Bug presents the
further adventures (well actually, I think that this is the first
one, so the next one would technically be the "further"
adventures) of Harvey
Richards, Lawyer for Children. Tune in next week (once again,
that would be the "further"
one) when Harvey Richards thinks he's found grounds for appeal under
the 1911 "I'm Rubber and You're Glue" decision.
Red Meat's Bug-Eyed Earl knows
how to
get into the season.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon takes
the week off. He's earned it.
Comic Strip of the Day finds
reassurance,
if not hope, in Dilbert, which puts the site one jump
ahead of us here at p3.
Superman versus Hulk, Part 3:
It's been a couple of years since Michael Habjan released "The
Meeting," setting the stage for the confrontation between
the strongest characters from the DC and Marvel universes. Part
1 and Part
2 of this amazing indie CGI creation followed shortly
thereafter. (The p3 toon review covered the release of both.) Now
the latest
installment is out. Still very good stuff. And it's pretty funny
to watch comic nerds argue about who should really
win.
New Year's comes but once a year! Although it
was released on January 26, 1938, "Let's Celebrake!" is a
New Year's Eve story, in which Popeye adopts the unusual role of
Bluto's wingman. Directed by Dave Fleischer, with animation by
Seymour Kneitel, and uncredited work by Jack Mercer (Popeye), Mae
Questel (The Slender One and Grandma), Gus Wickie (Bluto), and Sammy
Timberg (musical direction).
The Big, But Could Be Bigger and
Will Be in 2014, Oregon Toon Block
Matt Bors explores the
true historical origins of Duck Dynasty's free speech.
Jesse Springer laments the
passing of an Oregon Christmas tradition that's gone off
the rails.
Test your toon captioning mojo at The
New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon
contest. (Rules here.)
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