At least that's where things seem to be headed.
Today's toons were selected with loving
care 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 of toony goodness.
p3 Picks of the week: Mike
Luckovich, Jeff
Danziger, Joe
Heller, Joel
Pett, Ted
Rall, Jeff
Stahler, Tom
Toles, Signe
Wilkinson, Nick
Anderson, Pat
Bagley, Matt
Wuerker, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Clay
Jones.
p3 Legion of Merit: Ben
Sargent.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium: Scott
Stantis.
p3 "Ripped from the Headlines"
Award: Darrin
Bell. (And here's
the headline.)
p3 World Toon Review: Keven
Kallaugher (England), Paresh
Nath (India), Martyn
Turner (Ireland), and Petar
Pismestrovic (Austria).
Ann Telnaes looks at the whole
concept of taking
one for the team.
Mark Fiore is
feeling understandably Shell-shocked.
Tom Tomorrow presents one
of the most depressing cartoons I've read in quite a long while.
Keith Knight looks
at the
upside of the loss of half the earth's wildlife in less than 50
years.
Tom the Dancing Bug looks
at the odds.
Red Meat finds something
disturbing going on at the Johnson house, and for once it isn't
Ted or his son. I've always wondered about the never-seen Mrs.
Johnson.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon
sometimes makes you wonder what comics you've been
reading: His takeaway from
"The Better Half" is "Suicide is a revolutionary
act!"
Comic Strip of the Day reflects
on the
value of suspicious minds, and features a couple of images by
artists I grew up on, although you might not immediately associate
with political cartooning today.
Arf, arf! There ain't no ghosks!
Let's investitate! "Shiver
Me Timbers!" was the 12th Popeye theatrical short. Directed by
Dave Fleischer and released in 1934, with animation by Willard Bowsky
and Willard Sturm, it also features uncredited work by animator David
Tendlar, music director Sammy Timberg, plus William Costello (Popeye)
and Mae Questel (The Slender One). I was a little surprised to see Questel's
credit, since Olive sounds very un-Olivey in this one. Same with J.
Wellington Wimpy, who has the timing but not the strange, vaguely mid-Atlantic
accent he's usually given. During the 1930s, Wimpy was usually voiced
by music director Lou Fleischer. A colorized version of "Shiver
Me Timbers" was created a few years later, but we're bringing
you the original, in glorious monochrome. Notice to patrons: No one
will be seated during the bizarre three-way torture scene.
The Big, and Getting Bigger Since We
Rewrote the Rules and Welcomed Back yhe Departed, Oregon Toon Block:
Ex-Oregonian Jack Ohman warns us
of a menace taking
to the air.
Allegedly Ex-Oregonian Jen Sorensen
looks at the future
of early voting.
Matt Bors has
good news: Here
comes the media.
Jesse Springer looks at a
neglected side
of the GMO debate. (Here at p3,
by the way, we're much more concerned about the immediate
implications of genetic information as intellectual property for
organic farmers and subsistence farmers, compared to long-term health
hazards of eating the stuff, but that's just how we roll.)
Test your toon captioning Force at The
New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon
contest. (Rules here.)
And you can browse The New Yorker's cartoon gallery 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.
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