I imagine that many of my friends in
the Northeast and Midwest are formulating a resolution for 2014:
Spending next winter in the Southwest. Stay warm, and . . . well,
just stay warm.
Today's toons were found buried under
seven feet of snow on an even-day street somewhere in the east, as
assembled 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.
p3 Picks of the week: Mike
Luckovich, Jack
Ohman, Jeff
Danziger, Ted
Rall, Jeff
Stahler, Mike
Thompson, Gary
Varvel, Signe
Wilkinson, Randy
Bish, Mario
Piperni, Matt
Wuerker, Jen
Sorenson, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Clay
Bennett.
p3 Award for Best Current
Events-Related Anagram: Jimmy
Margulies.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium: Bill
Day.
p3 Notice of Demerit for Failure to
Distinguish Weather from
Climate (tie): Chip
Bok and Rick
McKee.
p3 World Toon Review: Petar
Pismestrovic (Austria), Heng
(Singapore), Lalo
Alcaraz (Cuba), Pedro
X. Molina (Nicaraugua).
Here's Politico's Best
Political Cartoons of 2013.
Ann Telnaes presents the
conservative craft
project for 2014.
Mark Fiore's Suzy
Newsykins advises us what
to forget about 2013.
Taiwan's Next Media Animation
covers the
definitive New-Year's-Eve-Party-Gone-Awry story for 2013.
Tom Tomorrow looks back at 2013:
The
Year in Crazy (Part 2).
Keith Knight finishes up the
year with what
Samuel Johnson called the lowest form of humor, but Aristotle
classified as a valid rhetorical topos. Besides, I just think the
image is funny. Pop!
Tom the Dancing Bug presents How
I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Surveillance State.
Red Meat's Ted Johnson and his
son capture
the true spirit of Christmas. And kill it.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon
discovers the true menace
in Dennis the Menace.
Comic Strip of the Day ponders
what
it is with the button-down, polite-sounding Rand Paul crowd. And
it goes in interesting directions from there.
Our tribute to Colorado: "Rodeo
Romeo," directed in 1946 by Izzy Sparber, with uncredited work
by Harry Welch (Popeye), Jackson Beck (Bluto), and Mae Questel (The
Slender One), starts out as just another
Popeye-and-Bluto-competing-over-Olive story, until a certain
controlled substance now legally for sale in The Mountain State
enters the picture. Wacky complications ensue, including fantasies of
nontraditional sex. Musical direction by Winston Sharples includes
bits from the Gene Autry standard "I Got Spurs That Jingle
Jangle Jingle," plus "Blow the Man Down" (the
cigarette-lighting gag) , "Streets of Cairo" (the dancing
lariat gag), and Yankee Doodle.
The Big, but Could Be Bigger, Oregon
Toon Block
Matt Bors presents the grim,
stark, ugly reality of unemployment – in some other dimension.
Jesse Springer notes that, for
much of Oregon, 2013 was the
driest year on record.
Test your toon captioning mojo at The
New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon
contest. (Rules here.)
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