It's nice to think I'm not the only one
who finds that the Republican-hogtied Congress going on "vacation"
for the month of August seems a tad redundant. As you'll see below,
it's not just Lindsey Buckingham on my side.
We'll just let that thought hang there.
We won't even mention the
tort-reform enthusiasts in House Republican majority bring a
frivolous Impeachment Lite lawsuit against the president for doing
what they wanted him to do. Or the cleansing of Gaza – not an easy
trick, making them the the sympathetic ones, but Israel's managing it
with ease. Or the racist, nativist, Tea Partying opposition to sixty
thousand refugees on our southern border – refugees from conditions
largely if not exclusively of our own making in the 1980s and 1990s.
On the
upside, there weren't any disastrous and sadistic medical experiments
disguised as state-sanctioned executions this week, nor did Putin
shoot down any more commercial airliners. And Justice Ginsberg has gotten
in touch with her inner awesomeness (although, oddly, no toons about
it this week). So there's that, I suppose.
Today's toons were selected by
volunteers, since all the responsible people were out of their
offices, 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.
p3 Picks of the week: Mike
Luckovich, Glenn
McCoy, Jim
Morin, Joel
Pett, Ted
Rall, Rob
Rogers, Drew
Sheneman, Signe
Wilkinson, Lalo
Alcaraz, Chip
Bok, Matt
Davies, Bob
Gorrell, Walt
Handlesman, Kevin
Kallaugher, Mike
Keefe, Adam
Zyglis, Trevor
Jones, Dave
Grandlund, Matt Wuerker, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Chad
Lowe.
p3 Medal for Evolutionary
Excellence: Pat
Bagley.
p3 Legion of Merit: Ben
Sargent.
p3 World Toon Review: Gado
(Kenya), Patrick
Chappatte (Switzerland), and Petar
Pismestrovic (Austria).
Ann Telnaes celebrates the
island-shirted
defender of the Constitution.
Mark Fiore issues the challenge:
Blink!
Tom Tomorrow presents: Uhm,
what the former vice president meant to say was . . .
Keith Knight reminds
us of the importance of those
three little words.
Tom the Dancing Bug reminds
readers of the
importance of worshipping the right deity.
Red Meat's Ted Johnson and his
son share
some family history.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon,
realizing it could be worse,
gazes in merely mild horror at the
eternal now.
Comic Strip of the Day looks at
the way political cartoonists handled
events one hundred years ago this week.
Making babies laugh is my specialty!
There's a funny twist at the end of "I Likes Babies and
Infinks," directed in 1937 by Dave Fleisher, with animation by
Seymour Kneitel and Graham Place (uncredited: Jack Mercer as Popeye,
Gus Wickie as Bluto, and Mae Questel as The Slender One and Swee'
Pea). The action uses depth of field and beautiful backgrounds so
well that it can make you hate any Popeye cartoon after about 1960.
And, once again, Olive's life would
be much, much simpler if she didn't tell Popeye her problems while
Bluto was listening outside the window. In luscious 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
Welcomed Back The Departed, Oregon Toon Block:
Ex-Oregonian Jack Ohman is at
the
end of the line.
Allegedly Ex-Oregonian Jen Sorensen
examines the importance of sincerely
held beliefs.
Matt Bors looks
at American
Exceptionalism, Part the Nth.
Jesse Springer is off this week.
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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