[Update: Missing Springer toon and weekly animation are back!]
Arizona's attempt to reinstate Jim
Crow: Fail (for now).
Neocons' efforts to get the US into a
war with Russia over Georgia: Fail (although it means that a
lot of people have had to Wiki "Crimean War" – some
before they hit the social media, some after).
The latest conservative-manufactured
ACA Fail stories: Fail (after a few minutes of online digging
by bloggers and reporters; even ACA's ardent supporters concede that there is
a small number of people who won't get a better deal under the new
health care system; why can't opponents find those people instead of
making up fake cases out of whole cloth?)
Today's toons were selected by members of the Academy from the week's offerings (some of which they've seen, most of which they haven't) 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, Jeff
Danziger, Walt
Handlesman, Chad
Lowe, Jim
Morin, Pat
Oliphant, Signe
Wilkinson, Steve
Sack, Matt
Wuerker, Jen
Sorenson, Pat
Bagley, Milt
Priggee, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: David
Fitzsimmons.
p3 Legion of Merit: Clay
Bennett.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium (tie): Phil
Hands and Jeff
Darcy.
p3 Medal for Best Repurposing of a
Classic Charles Addams Cartoon: R.
J. Matson. (See here.)
p3 World Toon Review: Kevin
Kallaugher (UK), Luojie
(China), Raul
Fernando Zuleta (Colombia), and Saad
Murtadha (Iraq).
Ann Telnaes celebrates
the smackdown.
Mark Fiore discovers strong
moral compasses aplenty in Arizona.
Taiwan's Next Media Animation
reminds us that Google's once-legendary motto – don't be evil –
is subject
to what the market will bear.
Tom Tomorrow answers the
question: How
is a handgun like Richard Pryor's crack pipe?
Keith Knight (with
an assist) notices that even Life's
Little Victories are different for the 1 percent.
Tom the Dancing Bug salutes
the
American family farmer, backbone of our economy. (Is it me, or
does the kid look a lot like a young Bill Gates, and if so is that
supposed to be irony?)
Red Meat's Ted Johnson has a
Close
Encounter of the Stand-Your-Ground Kind.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon can
only look on in horror as the
gentle, low-stakes whimsey of Gasoline Alley is traded in
for the chaos of complete societal breakdown.
Comic Strip of the Day continues
to whet
my curiosity about The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee.
Hm . . . starts throwing punches
when he hears a bell . . . And there you have the entire
premise of "Sock A Doodle Do," written by Tedd Pierce and
directed in 1952 by Robert McKimson
(the perfect director for Foghorn Leghorn's physical presence and
scenery chewing), featuring voice work by Portland's own Mel Blank
(Foghorn and Barnyard Dog) and
an uncredited Sheldon Leonard as Kid Banty. (Leonard, whose New York
accent could be sliced with a cheese knife, played hoods and heavies
for most of his acting career, but he was also the producer of
classic 1960s TV programming including Make Room for Daddy, The Dick
Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show, and I Spy – in most of
which, at one time or another, he worked in a cameo as one of his
Damon Runyon-esque characters.) Hat-tip to Ryan.
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 Done Yet, Oregon Toon Block:
Jesse Springer presents the
drug we probably do need a
war on (although at least
it means we don't have to do something completely immoral like, I
don't know, raising taxes.)
Test your toon captioning mojo at The
New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon
contest. (Rules here.)
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