It's not American Republicans versus
Iran. It's the Chamber of Commerce paymasters of the Republican Party
versus the Tea Party/Neocon/Theocratic base of the Republican Party.
Ask Indiana Governor Mike Pence. If he'll answer the phone.
I'm working on this during the NCAA
men's basketbal semifinals (although there is local pressure to
switch to the Blazers game), and I have to be honest: I was hoping
for some kind of live-TV moment that would embarrass Pence, but so
far that's not happening. Ah well. Anyone who watches the Final Four
(by the way, it's the first week in April – why do we still call it
March Madness?) and isn't prepared for the possibility of
disappointment has never watched it before.
Today's toons were selected after
considerable retooling from the Indiana legislature 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, Tim
Eagan, Walt
Handlesman, Rebecca
Hendin, Chan
Lowe, John
Darkow, Jimmy
Margulies, Jeff
Koterba, Matt
Wuerker, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Jim
Morin.
p3 Legion of Merit: Tom
Toles.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium (Tie): Clay
Bennett and Clay
Jones.
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon
Convergence (Part 1): Matt
Wuerker and Jeff
Danziger.
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon
Convergence (Part 2): Mike
Luckovich and Signe
Wilkinson.
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon
Convergence (Part 3): Tjeerd
Royaarrds and Steve
Kelley.
Ann Telnaes nicely captures the
GOP juggling act. (By the way, as any juggler will assure you,
this guy's doing the standard three-ball in the toughest way: The
more common figure-eight pattern looks harder but is easier; the
circular pattern this guy's using looks easier but is much harder.
And don't even get me started on Chris
Bliss! Oops – too
late.)
Mark Fiore notes a
coincidence.
Tom Tomorrow analyzes Ted Cruz's
plan. And
stuff.
Keith Knight salutes
Indiana's
commitment to the people.
Tom the Dancing Bug sympathizeswith
the
plight of Cafeteria Christians.
Red Meat's Mister Wally
considers the
intersection of freedom and context.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon
watches as Hi
and Lois takes a "Ransom of Red Chief" turn.
Comic Strip of the Day frets
about – no, wrong word – laments the Disneyfication of the world.
And yet finds
hope.
Well, no harm in borrowing a little
gas: And there you have the plot of "Well Oiled,"
directed in 1947 by Dick Lundy from a story by Ben Hardaway and Milt
Shaffer, Uncredited: Portland's own
Mel Blanc as Woody's laugh (only!), Ben Hardaway as Woody, and Jack
Mather as Wally Walrus. Watch
"Well Oiled" at DailyMotion.
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 does the
best Indiana/bracketology
mashup.
Very Likely Ex-Oregonian Jen
Sorensen looks at adaptation,
Southern style.
Matt Bors notes
that the forces of evil came so
close
to victory!
Jesse Springer finds
it odd – to
say the least – that Oregon Republicans don't think enough
money is being budgeted for schools. For non-Oregonians, the punch line is that the OR GOP, which oversaw the dismantling of Oregon's once-envied public education system beginning with the passage of property tax-cutting Measure 5 in 1990, now suddenly cares about the students. Although not the teachers. Definitely not the teachers. And if they could get the state's idiotic "kicker" fund back into the general fund, that'd free up more tax cuts for their patrons.
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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