I actually expected that to be the hook
for a lot of cartoons this week, but only Jesse Springer (below) was
out there on the cutting edge of politics and art. Maybe next week.
Meanwhile, today's toons weren't
selected at all – they rose from the sea and stomped the daylights
out of the corporate headquarters for 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, Clay
Bennett, Signe
Wilkinson, Tom
Toles, Ben
Sargent, Ted
Rall, Steve
Kelley, Adam
Zyglis, Brian
McFadden, Matt
Wuerker, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: R.
J. Matson.
p3 Certificate for Excellence in
Hydrodynamic Engineering: Dan
Wasserman.
p3 Legion of Highest Merit:
Steve
Breen.
p3 World Toon Review: Petar
Pismestrovic (Austria), Ingrid
Rice (Canada), Halit
Kurtulmus Aystoslu (Turkey), and Paresh
Nath (India).
The VA debacle meets Memorial Day
– and some
cartoonists were able to resist the shot, but others weren't.
Ann Telnaes wonders if we can
keep
the democratic process afloat.
Mark Fiore explains Rule #1 of
free market economics: Fewer
choices mean better choices!
Taiwan's Next Media Animation
provides the
only guide to the proposed AT&T/Direct TV merger that you'll
find amusing. That's no moon!
Tom Tomorrow sez: Better safe
than sorry. (And that was before all the bloodletting this
week.)
Keith Knight discovers
that you
can indeed go home after all (but perhaps it's for the best if
you don't).
Tom the Dancing Bug presents
a special edition of Super-Fun-Pak Comix – Meet
the Artists!
Red Meat's Papa Moai brings Ted
Johnson the
ultimate in home security.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon
traces Six Chicks' journey
to Ixtlan.
Comic Strip of the Day has a
word of the day: Rough
housing. Yes, it's two words. Bite me. Come for the thoughts on
fathering, stay for the non-X-Men Days.
He's as good as got! For
Memorial Day, here's one of the rare wartime Popeye shorts that doesn't
delve into racial stereotypes. "Fleets of Stren'th" was
directed in 1942 by Dave Fleischer from a story by Dan Gordon and
Jack Mercer (who also voiced Popeye), with animation by Al Eugster
and Tom Golden, and musical direction by Sammy Timberg. A colorized version of this exists, but you know how we feel about that sort of thing around here.
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 does a
nice job with the Heroic
Soviet Worker poster.
Ex-Oregonian Jen Sorensen solves
the riddle: Why is Photoshop like beer? Answer: Because
you don't buy it, you just rent it. (By the way, this not only
sucks if you're a working cartoonist like JS, it also sucks if you're
an out of work web-content editor who wants to keep his skillz up to
date.)
Matt Bors takes
us to lunch
at the Times'
executive dining room.
Jesse Springer pays tribute to
the exciting story of overmatched humans whose ingenuity and courage
nevertheless enabled them to triumph
over a giant mutant threat. Congratulations to the voters of Jackson County, Oregon!
Test your toon captioning mojo at The
New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon
contest. (Rules here.)
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