If all you had to toon about this week
was that the 2016 GOP presidential field was a clown car, you didn't
make the cut and Comic
Strip of the Day explains why. On the other hand, Gary Varvel
(below) captures the GOP's problem for the next several months, which
is that it is – and isn't – a horse race.
And congratulations to Ireland, but if
all you came up with was leprechauns and rainbow flags, you probably
didn't make the cut.
Oh, and FIFA is corrupt.
Today's toons were selected via a
massive system of interlocking bribery from the week's offerings at
McClatchy DC,
Cartoon Movement, Go
Comics, Politico's
Cartoon Gallery, Daryl
Cagle's Political Cartoons, The Nib
(maybe! see below), About.com,
and other fine sources of cartoon goodness.
p3 Picks of the week: Mike
Luckovich, Dan
Wasserman, Signe
Wilkinson, Nick
Anderson, Darrin
Bell, Clay
Bennett, Stuart
Carlson, Rebecca
Hendin, Matt
Wuerker, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Tom
Toles.
p3 Legion of Merit: Gary
Varvel.
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon
Convergence: Scott
Stantis and Dr.
Jack and Curtis.
p3 "And He's Also The Moderate"
Award: Drew
Sheneman.
Ann Telnaes takes a
trip down memory lane. Good times.
Mark Fiore bids farewell
(maybe, perhaps, kind of, sort of, for now) to the NSA's
collection of everyone's cell phone metadata, starting tomorrow.
Tom Tomorrow reveals
the similarities between the origins of the Iraq War and an
episode of "The Outer Limits" I'm pretty sure I remember.
Keith Knight notes:
It's
all about the asterisk.
Reuben Bolling investigates
the
tricky business of nicknames.
Red Meat's Ted Johnson and his
son confirm something many of us who went to summer camp have long
suspected.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon
explains the birth of the
cool. Hint: It has nothing to do with a tepid Peanuts gag
that launched 44
years ago this week.
Comic Strip of the Day takes us
on a tour of cartoon
fauna, beginning with the first B.C.
cartoon I've gotten a laugh out of in years.
And I, Schmendrik, have learned
that, wherever you go, it's pretty much like staying in the same
place! And there you have the story of "Village of Idiots,"
directed and animated in 1999 by Eugene Fedorenko and Rose Newlove,
narrated by Nicholas Rice from a script by John Lazarus. Thank
you, National Film Board of Canada. You
can watch "Village of Idiots" at NFB's site.
The Big, And Getting Bigger Since We
Welcomed Back The Departed, Oregon Toon Block:
Ex-Oregonian Jack Ohman
witnesses a
by-god miracle.
Very Possibly Ex-Oregonian Jen
Sorensen looks at
the "life" side of "pro-life." Some
restrictions may apply. Not to the pro-life people who make the
pro-life rules, of course. Not that.
Matt Bors seems
to have run
out of patience with . . . somebody.
Jesse Springer celebrates the #1
ranking of the University of Oregon, a multi-platform
entertainment complex which also happens on the side to be a nonprofit
organization authorized by the state to award academic degrees.
Test your toon captioning superpowers
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.
No comments:
Post a Comment