That's right, we're going to go all-Koch, all the time here at p3.
Well, no, not really. But there are a lot of Koch- and campaign spending-themed toons this week. And why not?
After
all, they've got over $900 million they're ready to invest (heh) in
the 2016 elections. True, it's only about one-eighth the amount of of
cash – just cash – the Bush administration apparently planned to
use as walking-around money to bring elections to Iraq (before
they mislaid it). But my hope is that the Koch millions will have
as little desired effect on our form of government as all those lost
presidents apparently did over in Iraq.
Well,
there is one other hope: If the brothers Koch are dumping all that
money in cash (and, after Citizens
United, why
would they bother with paperwork?), maybe a pallet of shrink-wrapped
Benjamins could land turn up in my rental storage unit? A
modest-sized pallet, say? A foot locker? Even just one of those
titanium briefcases they always make payoffs with in the movies? My
case is this: If I spent the next fifteen months doing everything I
could as a blogger to hurt the Republican cause, I'm sure it will be
utterly insignificant compared to the damage some of their own
whackjob candidates might yet do, so I'm really sort of a good place
to send some money. So if they're really serious. . . .
Missing in action this week: Romney
pulls out of the 2016 presidential race, Super Bowl anything, and
deflated-footballs anything. And I think that the whole
Boehner-Netanyahu thing is going to ripen like a Carlotta cheese mold
for another week or two, so we can wait on that.
Today's toons were drawn 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 – after being left in the
unsupervised care of some unnnamed person on the Patriots' payroll.
(Oh, lighten up. Of course the fix was in. But it's 2015; I'm not
even certain that cheating is against the rules in sports anymore.)
p3 Picks of the week: Mike
Luckovich, Jeff
Danziger, Kevin
Kallaugher, Signe
Wilkinson, Jeff
Darcy, Matt
Wuerker, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Order of the Annuciation of the
Theme: Tom
Toles.
p3 Best of Show: Jim
Morin.
p3 Legion of Exceptional Merit:
Milt Priggee.
p3 Political Bestiary Award:
Jeff
Danziger.
p3 "Sympathy for the Devil"
Medal: Scott
Stantis.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium: Pat
Bagley.
p3 World Toon Review: Martin
Sutovec (Slovakia), Ingrid
Rice (Canada), Christo
Komarnitski (Bulgaria), and Miguel
Villalba Sánchez (Spain).
(Okay, fine, one "Romney
pulls out" toon from Dana
Summers. But that's it. I mean it.)
Ann Telnaes watches as John
McCain's favorite candidate for the 2016 GOP nomination confuses . .
. wait – what's that phrase for a
comparison that makes no logical sense?
Mark Fiore's Suzie Newsykins
marks the passing of a
partner in peace.
Tom Tomorrow raises an
interesting point: How did right-wing pseudo-science exist before
the invention of air-quotes?
Keith Knight examines
the free
exchange of political thought.
Tom the Dancing Bug worked
so diligently
to set up his joke I decided to break another of my above-stated
rules today. (And for those who are curious, Chagrin "rhymes
with pig-pen" Falls is a real town.)
Does Red Meat's The Old Cowboy
wish he could quit Lyle?
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon
returns to the question: What
is the deal with Heathcliff's garbage? (No one will be seated
during the terrifying cat-aphrodisiac scene!)
Comic Strip of the Day begins by
magically knowing the
reason I pay even the slightest attention to pro sports. (Is he
psychic? Spoiler:
Nah.) I guess this breaks the third of my above-mentioned promises. See what even the thought of Koch money does? It corrupts.
Don't worry about me – I've got
plenty of food! And right now I'm going swimmin'! On the heels of
last week's New England blizzard, but just
in time for tomorrow's rodent ritual, comes one of the very few
golden-age cartoons that actually involve a groundhog. "Pantry
Panic," directed by Walter Lantz in 1941 from a story by Ben
Hardaway and Lowell Elliot, hangs on what would become a standard
Woody Woodpecker peg: Woody's pretty irresponsible. Uncredited voice
work by Portland's own Mel Blanc as Woody (the laugh); Danny Webb as
Woody (the dialogue), Korny Kat, and the Moose; and Sara Berner and
Bernice Hansen as the birds – all uncredited. Prof. Weatherby
Groundhog might have been voiced by story guy Ben Hardaway – this
was only the third Woody Woodpecker cartoon and it appears that both
voice casting and character design were still somewhat in flux.
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 looks at
the blizzard
forecast last week.
Possibly Ex-Oregonian Jen Sorensen
brings us a real double-threat: Someone whos not only is already
being touted as a potential running mate for whoever the 2016 GOP
nominee might turn out to be, but
is a lifestyle coach, too!
Matt Bors doesn't like the looks
of the trend
lines.
Jesse Springer wonders which
cloud is currently hanging over the governor's mansion.
Test your toon captioning powers 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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