Millions of Americans Lose Interest
in World Cup Because USA Lost to Germany
Immigrant Children Wait While
Republicans and Democrats Decide Whose Fault It Is
Mandatory World Cup Blood Tests Now
to Include Rabies
NeoCons Pick Up Exactly Where They
Left Off 11 Years Ago: Meanwhile Pundits Expect Hillary to Get Free
Ride from Media in 2016
Today's toons were found underneath a yellowed pile of Chicago Tribune back issues with
the 72-point headline TRUMAN DEFEATS ROOSEVELT, buried in a
trunk along with 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, Kevin
Kallaugher, Ted
Rall, Rob
Rogers, Ben
Sargent, Paul
Szep, Signe
Wilkinson, Darrin
Bell, Pat
Bagley, Dave
Granlund, John
Darkow, David
Fitzsimmons, Matt
Wuerker, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Utterly, Absolutely Best of Show:
Jim
Morin.
p3 Legion of Merit: Tony
Auth.
p3 Medal of Constancy (with Prunes)
for Refusing to Give Up on Something Even Congressional Republicans
Have Quietly Moved On From: Glenn
McCoy.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium: Clay
Bennett and Joe
Heller,
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon
Convergence: I don't think there's much there there
on this scandal wannabe. Perhaps the tie among Henry
Payne, Robert
Arial, and Steve
Kelley proves there is, or perhaps the reverse. (Also note that
Comic Strip of the Day
beat me to another, better instance
of HTC, below.)
p3 World Toon Review: Seah
Leahy (Australia), Alan
Moore (Australia), Tom
Scott (New Zealand), Gado
(Kenya), Tom
Janssen (Netherlands), and Payam
Boromand (Iran).
Ann Telnaes notes that Candidate
Apparent Clinton will need
to clean up her act.
Mark Fiore brings the good news:
The
band's back together! Can a concert film for PBS pledge week be
far behind?
Good news for the Sage of Baltimore:
H. L. Mencken wondered aloud, in 1936, if the political term
"fat-cat" had
what it took to go the distance in the American language. Thanks
to Matt Wuerker, Mencken need worry
no more.
Tom Tomorrow imagines
a butterfly beating its wings in central Asia, and in a TV studio
13,000 miles away comes a faint "Bzapp!" followed by "Pop!"
Keith Knight presents
what is either a cautionary tale for children or a metaphor for the
bitter geopolitical realities of our time. One or the other.
Tom the Dancing Bug takes
us two miles beneath the surface of the Arctic Ocean – and what's
waiting there is every bit as horrible as you expected!
Red Meat's Bug-Eyed Earl faces
what you might call a
problem of religious liberty.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon
discovers the Worst. Sexual
euphemism. Ever.
Comic Strip of the Day pays
tribute to political
cartoonist Etta Hulme, who died this week at age 90. I only
linked to Hulme twice at this blog; once in 2007 and once in 2009.
Both links are now broken. The dearth of appearances here has much
more to do with my methodology than my tastes, but in the end the
result was the same. Shame on me. I will work harder.
It's our pleasure to be at your service! "We Aim
to Please" was directed in
1934 by Dave Fleischer, with uncredited work by Billy Costello
(Popeye and probably J. Wellington Wimpy), Mae Questel (The Slender
One), and Sammy Timberg (musical direction and, most likely,
composition of the title song). In glorious 2D monochrome.
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
Bent the Rules and Welcomed Back The Departed, Oregon Toon Block:
Ex-Oregonian Jack Ohman has some
helpful
suggestion for the NFL's current awkward problem. I'm torn
between #3 and #5.
Ex-Oregonian Jen Sorensen hears
the new
conservative mantra. Really – if Chuck Colson could
(profitably) get religion in prison, can this move be far behind?
Matt Bors chronicles
the terrors
of the Children's Crusade.
Jesse Springer notes
the dangerous irony of bee colony die-offs – in Oregon, of all
places, where flying with your own wings is celebrated – due to
pesticide use.
Test your toon captioning mojo at The
New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon
contest. (Rules here.)
And you can browse The New Yorker's cartoon gallery here.
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