Topics of the week: The Olympics are
over and people are now noticing that something's going on in Kiev.
Whatever the outcome of the Comcast merger, you couldn't find a
subscriber who's looking forward to it if you had a magnifying glass
and tweezers. And global warming is claimed to be a hoax again,
because, you know, winter – unless you live in places like
Australia or California. Even if it's paralyzing winter in
Georgia, which ought to catch
even the most cynical critic's attention.
Today's toons were delivered by the
dogs who survived the Sochi Olympic Village purge, 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, Ted
Rall, Drew
Sheneman, Tom
Toles, Gary
Varvel, Signe
Wilkinson, Clay
Bennett, Matt
Wuerker, Jen
Sorenson, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Ben
Sargent.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium (tie): Bob
Englehart and John
Darkow.
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon
Convergence: Taylor Jones
and Randy
Bish.
Ann Telnaes has a religious tip:
Always
look for the zipper pull on the angel's robe.
Mark Fiore checks out those
wonderful souls running the American Petroleum Institute.
Tom Tomorrow explains why the
American economy is like "The Highlander:" In
the end, there can only be one.
Keith Knight shares
his gradual
climb to cultural iconicity.
Tom the Dancing Bug brings
you the further adventures of Nate
the Wonder Pundit (and his peer-reviewed outlet).
Red Meat's Ted Johnson says, Ask
your doctor!
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon has
this reminder – if you need it – of how
far Funky Winkerbean has
spiralled away from the
cute high-school version of Doonesbury
it once was.
Comic Strip of the Day takes a cautionary look at
the
Comcast merger mess, and also makes me wonder if I've been wrong in
ignoring The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. Will it get added to the p3 Sunday Comics Read-Along? Time will tell.
Paid for every dance, sellin' each
romance: "Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo"
was a 1928 German song about a fellow fallen on hard times in post-WWI Austria , and was
given English lyrics and title – "I'm Just a Gigolo" – the next year, with most of
the historical specifics removed. (All this was not quite 30 years
before an inspired Louis Prima combined it with "I Ain't Got
Nobody," added a backbeat, and made it a standard of such durability that even
David Lee Roth couldn't completely suck the oxygen out of it.) The 1932
Betty Boop cartoon of the same name captures some of the
winners-and-losers flavor of the original. Direction by Dave
Fleischer, with Mae Questel voicing La Boop, Broadway star Irene
Goldoni as herself, and Sammy Timberg handling musical direction. The
UM&M TV Corporation bought up most of the Fleischer-era Paramount
cartoons in the mid-1950s for TV distribution, removing the original credits and replacing them with its own logo card. So this is not, alas, a
pristine print. Also missing now is a live-action introduction by
producer Max Fleischer himself.
The p3 Sunday Comics Read-Along:
Pearls
Before Swine, Doonesbury,
Rhymes with Orange, Zits,
Adam @ Home, Mutts,
Over the
Hedge, Get
Fuzzy, Prince
Valiant, Blondie,
Bizarro, Mother
Goose & Grimm, Rose
is Rose, Luann,
Hagar
the Horrible, Pickles,
Rubes, Grand
Avenue, and Freshly
Squeezed.
The Big, But Could Be Bigger, And We're Not Giving Up, Oregon
Toon Block:
Matt Bors drops
us a line, but it ain't from Asbury Park.
Jesse Springer figures – and
it's hard to disagree – that local bans on medical marijuana
dispensaries in Oregon are going to get . . . well, see
for yourself:
Test your toon captioning mojo at The
New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon
contest. (Rules here.)
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