First, congratulations to p3 regular
Kevin Siers at the Charlotte Observer, who received the 2014
Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.
Second, congratulations and good luck to the
2014 nominees for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award.
Today's toons were selected from cartoons hidden all over the White House lawn, out of a basketful of 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, Jim
Morin, Pat
Oliphant, Ted
Rall, Ben
Sargent, Signe
Wilkinson, Bill
Schorr, Matt
Wuerker, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Clay
Bennett.
p3 Legion of Extreme Merit: Pat
Bagley.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium: Brian
McFadden.
p3 World Toon Review: McDonald
(Honduras), Martin
Sutovec (Slovakia), Pedro
X. Molina (Nicaragua), Petar
Pismestrovic (Austria).
Ann Telnaes looks at some
solid-gold
Easter eggs.
Mark Fiore reviews the works
of the former Thane of Crawford TX. Actually, I'm not a good
enough judge to say much about Dubya's paintings other than he's
probably a lot better at making them look like their subjects than I
would be. But I confess I'm not very surprised that he has better
luck with the right side of his brain than he's had with the left
side.
Taiwan's Next Media Animation
gives a tour of the
next world with an atmosphere and liquid water – that we can
trash beyond recognition if we can figure out how to get there. And
remember to bring your SPF 45,000 sun-block.
If all computer-based animation
looked
like this, movie audiences might not be looking forward with such
trepidation to "How to Train Your Dragon 2."
Tom Tomorrow looks with horror
at the latest
inexplicable disappearance without so much as a beep.
Keith Knight considers
the
freeness of a free ride.
Tom the Dancing Bug presents
Chagrin
Falls, which actually is a real place. And the attitudes of
concern for our fellow creatures is real, too.
Red Meat's Clyde has
his health care plan all worked out.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon calls
it "jarring," "realistic and grim," and
"completely bonkers" – so you know it's
gotta be Funky Winkerbean.
Comic Strip of the Day is all
about the juxtapositions. (Interestingly, I looked for a long
time at the Schot cartoon at the end of the post, but decided at the
last moment not to include it in the World Toon Review – so,
problem solved!)
Here's the Easter Rabbit – hooray!
Bugs Bunny fills in for the Easter
Bunny in "Easter Yeggs," directed by Robert McKimson in
1947. Uncredited voice work by Portland's own Mel Blanc (Bugs, and
pretty much everyone else except Elmer) and Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer
Fudd). I have no idea what the "Dick Tracy" joke is doing
there. "Easter Yeggs" is no longer available on YouTube and
such, although you can buy it at Amazon if that's your thing. If you
just want to watch it, you'll have to go to a Romanian site, so:
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, Freshly
Squeezed, The Brilliant Mind
of Edison Lee, and Jumble.
The Big, And Getting Bigger Since We
Welcomed Back The Departed, Oregon Toon Block:
Ex-Oregonian Jack Ohman has the
inside story.
Ex-Oregonian Jen Sorensen
reveals the
tyranny of the grey men.
Matt Bors makes
you wish.
Jesse Springer sees lemonade, so
to speak, where others see lemons. He's putting
the "P" back in Portland, over one of the most
embarassing stories to get tied to the Rose City's ass like a tin can
in quite some time.
Test your toon captioning mojo at The
New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon
contest. (Rules here.)
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