Sorry, Donald Trump, TPP, and Planned Parenthood
hearings; you all pretty much got Bigfooted this week by the the other two topics:
Guns: Lots
of entries here, although it gets harder and harder to be original on
deadline when we're averaging about one mass shooting per day. Still,
Darrin Bell managed to be original and
productive on dealine, while Tim Eagan captured the
Quentin Tarantino side of it all.
Disorder in the House: There
was a creepy decapitation theme running through cartoon coverage of
the latest example of congressional Republicans' unfitness to govern;
of those, Mike Luckovich's was the best, and least creepy.
Lisa Benson captured the Wile E. Coyote-ness of it all. And I
suppose I'd dispute one part of Matt Davies' otherwise-apt
piece: He has his Puritans wrong – the Tea Party didn't do Boenher
in; it was the even-fringier Freedom Caucus. (Which actually sounds
like the
curtain line of the 1933 "King Kong".)
Today's toon selections were determined by the
outcome of an air battle at the top of the Empire State Building,
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, Scott
Stantis, Signe
Wilkinson, Nick
Anderson, Clay
Bennett, Lisa
Benson, Jeff
Danziger, Matt
Davies, Tim
Eagan, Chad
Lowe, Glenn
McCoy, David
Fitzsimmons, Matt
Wuerker, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Robert
Ariail.
p3 Legion of Merit: Steve
Sack.
p3 Science Nerd Award: Tom
Toles.
p3 Out On the Weekend Medal:
Darrin Bell (Friday)
(Saturday)
(and it looks like Sunday may have her foot in the door as well)
p3 World Toon Review: Tom
Trouw (Netherlands), Patrick
Chappatte (Switzerland), Gianfranco
Uber (Italy), and Fadi
Abou Hassan (Norway).
Ann Telnaes celebrates one
of the worst plans in current campaign politics. Talk about a cry
for help.
Mark Fiore reveals one of the
guiding principles of our great democracy: If it works on a
bumper sticker, it's a great way to run a country!
Tom Tomorrow notes that the
people love a winner. Until
they don't. And remember: If you see a unicorn in the garden,
you are a booby
and people will try to put you in the booby-hatch. But if you think
an invisible hand guides economic markets toward optimal outcomes,
you're a University of Chicago economist.
Keith Knight pays
tribute to Grace Lee Boggs. No punchline.
Reuben Bolling conducts
a thought experiment in which . . . uhm . . . nothing
really changes.
Red Meat's Ted Johnson takes us
to the fine line between
delight and agony. Brace yourself.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon fears
the eventual collapse of the
Shoeniverse. Be afraid, but don't bother with your homework.
Comic Strip of the Day doesn't
ask the question What's in a name? – he answers
it.
P.S. Bring Your Lunch. (What??)
Despite the YouTube caption, there's no indication that "Betty
Boop's Halloween Party," directed in 1933 by Willard Bowsky
(uncredited; in fact, everyone's uncredited in this one, including
musical director Sammy Timberg, voice talent Bonnie Poe and – I'm
pretty sure, although no source even mentions it – William Pennell
as the gorilla) was ever banned. La Boop did get a couple of her
cartoons banned, usually after the move to TV syndication, but this
wasn't one of the ones. The song "Let's All Sing Like the
Birdies Sing" – which, inexplicably, never caught on as a
Halloween party tradition – was written in 1932 by Robert
Hargreaves, Stanley J. Damerell and Tolchard Evans. Speaking of
syndication and missing production credits, the UM&M TV Corp
(which in 1954 bought the syndication rights to all the Paramount
cartoons through October 1950, except Popeye and Superman) removed a
short filmed introduction by producer Max Fleisher and substituted
its ID card at the beginning of the film. So there you are.
The Value-Sized Oregon Toon Block:
Ex-Oregonian Jack Ohman
contemplates the
last word.
Possibly Ex-Oregonian Jen Sorensen
celebrates the
hot new trend sweeping America's public colleges.
Matt Bors uncovers
the vaguely James-Bondy side of the
Pope's recent visit.
Jesse Springer detects
a pattern.
Test your toon captioning kung fu 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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