China sending the global stock market
into a tizzy? Yeah, we got that.
Ten years after Katrina and the state
of New Orleans? Yup, got that, too.
The totally over-hyped product of the
arbiters of conventional centrist wisdom that is the theoretical Biden presidential
campaign? Yeah, that too.
The made-for-YouTube shooting of the
Virginia local morning news team? Not so much. Condolences to their
families, their co-workers, and their community, but the coverage
seems a little tinged and this
is part of the reason why.
Today's toons were selected 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, Jim
Morin, Ted
Rall, Michael
Ramirez, Rob
Rogers, Tom
Toles, Signe
Wilkinson, Nick
Anderson, Darrin
Bell, Clay
Jones, Chan
Lowe, Pat
Bagley, JD
Crowe, Matt
Wuerker, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Joel
Pett.
p3 Legion of Merit: Rob
Rogers.
p3 Croix de Guerre: Clay
Bennett.
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon
Convergence: RJ
Matson and Bob
Gorrell.
Ann Telnaes recaps the
events in New Orleans ten years ago this week. Good to be
reminded what a dreadful piece of work the Bush matriarch is, by the
way.
Mark Fiore worries that Smokey's
job has gotten more complicated. And more important.
Tom Tomorrow documents the
stages of The Proven Thing.
Keith Knight runs
with it.
Reuben Bolling explores
the concept of sort-of-omnipotence.
(One more reason to respect
the legacy of Jimmy Carter.)
Red Meat's Ted Johnson gives us
the
deal in a nutshell.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon takes
us to the intersection of
food-like products, office culture, and self-esteem.
Comic Strip of the Day zeros in,
with a short opening paragraph, on the reason there's no reason to
include Trump toons this week. Then he goes
on to more evolved things.
Sorry I had to pwug you, Mr. Duck,
but I'm a sportsman. A gweat, gweat sportsman! "To
Duck or Not to Duck" (1943) is one of the early instances when
director Chuck Jones got his hands on Daffy Duck. Ten years later,
Jones (with writer Michael Maltese) had transformed Daffy from the zany who always got the best of
hunters (usually Elmer Fudd) to the hilarious but hapless
second-banana who never managed to get the best of Bugs Bunny, most
memorably in the Hunting
Trilogy. and Duck Amuck. Portland's own Mel Blanc voiced Daffy, the referee, and
Larrimore; Arthur Q. Bryan did his uncredited bit as Elmer.
The Modest, Yet Not Without
Ambitions, Even At This Late Date, Oregon Toon Block:
Ex-Oregonian Jack Ohman is never
to high to dive
for a pun.
Extremely Possibly Ex-Oregonian Jen
Sorensen gives us Smokey's
second appearance this week.
Matt Bors celebrates
the
joys of summer. Void where prohibited.
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.
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