If you did a drone cartoon this week but didn't
look at the enormous disparity between the uncounted indigenous
casualties (deliberate or accidental) and the two Americans who were
regrettably killed this week, you probably didn't make the cut.
And if you did an Earth Day cartoon but
never really made it farther than "yeah, we're screwed,"
you probably didn't make the cut either. (See Ann Telnaes and Jen
Sorenson, below.)
Today's toons were selected by remote
pilots at an Air Force Base somewhere in Nevada, 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 cartoon goodness.
p3 Picks of the week: Mike
Luckovich, Jeff
Stahler, Signe
Wikinson, Darrin
Bell, Jeff
Danziger, Chan
Lowe, Matt
Wuerker, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Nick
Anderson.
p3 Legion of Merit: Ted
Rall.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium: Mike
Keefe.
p3 "Arrgh! My eyes! I Can't
Un-See That!" Medal: Mike
Lukovich.
p3 World Toon Review: Patrick
Chappatte (Switzerland), Tom
Janssen (Netherlands), Riber
Hanssen (Sweden) and Brandon
Reynolds (South Africa).
Ann Telnaes says it's
time.
Mark Fiore knows the
key to a successful arms industry: Flexibility!
Tom Tomorrow warns of a creature
driven
by compulsions beyond human comprehension!
Keith Knight looks
at added training
for the cop on the beat.
Tom the Dancing Bug explains
why you just never see that many free-market libertarians who
aren't already set.
You
knew that Red Meat's Bug-Eyed Earl was headed
somewhere like this, but I bet you didn't guess exactly, did you?
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon
celebrates a long-standing
crime/adventure trope: Gold bullion's hard to steal because it
weighs so much. Ask Auric
Goldfinger. Or (non-canonical) Sherlock
Holmes.
Comic Strip of the Day starts
off with the
observation that dog-owners never believe that their
dogs could be a problem, and winds up at fair use.
Had the silly thing in reverse!
It's one of my favorites – and
it's Babylon 5's Security Chief Michael Garibaldi's absolute favorite
– and it's back: "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century,"
directed in 1953 by Chuck Jones from a story by Michael Maltese.
Portland's own Mel Blanc voiced . . . everybody. (Mr. Garibaldi also
had a poster of Daffy in his quarters, which was later explained to a
visitor as one of his household gods, specifically the god of
frustration.) This is the only golden age cartoon that pitted Daffy
Duck against Marvin the Martian; all of Marvin's other appearances
from that era were against Bugs Bunny. Watch
it here on Vimeo.
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
Started Cheating And Welcomed Back The Departed, Oregon Toon Block:
Ex-Oregonian Jack Ohman speaks
the truth.
Entirely Possibly Ex-Oregonian Jen
Sorensen hits near to my heart with a
warning about excess. And I love the logic of her truck name!
Matt Bors reminds
us that while nothing in America is ever about race (props to Charlie
Pierce), nothing
is ever about class, either.
Jesse Springer finds the
common ground between gun true-believers and their sensible
opponents. It is not encouraging. Background
here.
Test your toon captioning magic 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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