Yes, Chris Christie's inner jerk has
been rediscovered by people who somehow missed it the first time
around. So
let's just get it out of our system. By the way: To all of those
non-Republicans who imagine this will end Christie's presidential
hopes – think again. The GOP base adores score-settlers,
ratfuckers, and payback artists. See
here.
And there was a huge cold front you may
have heard about, and the NSA is still running amok. And
congressional Republicans see no point to extending unemployment
insurance, since it will only make people who can't get jobs . . .
count on paying for food and housing with unemployment, and who wants
to encourage that? And although we're still finding out about the
NSA's utterly unconstitutional antics, Edward Snowden is still
considered a traitor, not a whistleblower. Although a couple of
newspapers – starting with the New York Times – are wising
up that free journalism depends on people who will talk about what
the government doesn't want talked about, so there's some hope.
Today's toons were diverted off the
George Washington Bridge 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, Pat
Oliphant, Clay
Bennett, Matt
Davies, Pat
Bagley, Mario
Piperni, Matt
Wuerker, Jen
Sorenson, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Chan
Lowe.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium (tie): Jim
Morin and Jeff
Danziger.
p3 World Toon Review: Patrick
Chappatte (Switzerland), Ben
Jennings (United Kingdom), Ares
(Cuba), and Ingrid
Rice (Canada).
Ann Telnaes welcomes
Congress back.
Mark Fiore remembers Falluja.
Think
any Iraq-hawks do? There's a special circle in hell waiting for
the PNAC bloodsuckers who thought invading Iraq an attack set up by
another country was a good idea. Especially the guy who authorized
the war because "Saddam tried to kill my daddy."
Taiwan's Next Media Animation
has the title that says it all: Woman
Munches on Fiat During Drunken Rage. In her defense, she was
Welsh.
Engulf
and Devour – the Portland Metro edition: The Star Wars
comic franchise is moving
from local treasure Dark Horse Comics to Marvel. Our sympathies
to the production company across the river.
p3
restates its original position about the forthcoming
Superman-Batman movie: Worry that the film will hurt Ben Affleck's
reputation, not the other way around. Now the word on the street is
that Wonder Woman will have an appearance, but her tribe of Amazons
will turn out to be . . . oh, lord, just
go read it yourself.
Happy
101st birthday
to legendary New Yorker
cartoonist. If you only
know him from the Addams Family movies, it's
time to get caught up. His work is both creepy and
kookie.
Who gets to be a superhero?
Well, it's funny
you should ask.
Maybe if Disney had been less
dismissive
of female animators back in the day, you wouldn't have to worry
today that your sister/daughter/niece might want to be a Disney
Princess. This has also reaffirmed my belief that I don't want to see
"Saving Mr. Banks."
Tom Tomorrow offers advice
about what really matters.
Keith Knight experiences life
in the rear-view mirror.
Tom the Dancing Bug explores
pufferfish
madness! (Based on a
true story.)
Red Meat's Bug-Eyed Earl has
that exact
same dream again.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon is
relieved to see manic
excitement replacing glum resignation, at least for a little
while.
Comic Strip of the Day
celebrates the underground
comix!
Featured animation "How
to Be a Detective," directed in 1952 by Jack Kenney with
uncredited voice work by Billy Bletcher (Al Muldoon), Pinto Colvig
(Goofy), and June Foray (the Dame), is no Big Sleep, but it begins
with a scene right out of Nick Danger: Third Eye. Don't know who
voiced the weasel, who appeared again in "Who Framed Roger
Rabbit?" And, oddly, the "painting of the road going
straight" didn't work the way it usually does. Go figure.
The Big, But Could Be Bigger, Oregon
Toon Block:
Matt Bors explores the tricky
middle line.
Jesse Springer looks back at the last
attempt to make an Oregon-goes-it-alone Columbia crossing. Not
encouraging.
Test your toon captioning mojo at The
New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon
contest. (Rules here.)
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