There
were three big stories last week, although they almost Bigfooted one
another:
Joe Biden officially dropped out of a presidential race he
was never in; Paul Ryan, apparently having learned nothing from the
demise of John Boehner, tentatively agreed to step into the latter's
becrapped shoes as Speaker, placing him for the moment the closest in the line of
Presidential succession he'll ever, ever be; and Hillary Clinton got
a better boost from eleven hours of swatting away questions from Rep.
Trey Gowdy's band of yahoos than her campaign strategists could have
won for her in the next eleven months.
And
you can tell which cartoons were worked up before Thursday's Benghazi!
hearings: they're the ones with the witch-burned-at-the-stake theme.
(Too many of them for Harmonic Toon Convergence recognition; we'd
have run out of certificates.) Any toons released after the hearings
tended toward contempt for Gowdy's pointless hearings or celebration
of Clinton's mixture of bemusement and contempt for the committee's
clueless bumbling. Jack
Ohman and Jeff
Danziger are pretty much
the alpha and omega of this trend today. What a difference a day
makes! (And if your only point is that anything Hillary says is a
lie, you didn't make the cut today.)
Today's toons were selected based on
leaks to Maureen Dowd and day-before predictions by Bill Kristol,
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, Jeff
Danziger, Jim
Morin, Signe
Wilkinson, Pat
Bagley, Matt
Wuerker, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Clay
Bennett.
p3 Legion of Merit: Drew
Sheneman.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium (tie): Matt
Wuerker and Tom
Toles.
p3 World Toon Review: Paresh
Nath (India), Patrick
Chappatte (Switzerland), and Ingrid
Rice (Canada).
Ann Telnaes' live
sketches from last Thursday's Bengazi! hearings pretty much capture the tone. (Bonus points if you find the one where she captures
Hillary's Chuck Jones-y moment. Check out the daydreaming Ralph
Phillips, at right and below.)
Mark Fiore reminds us: drones
aren’t the policy, assassination is the policy. Also, you
should read The
Intercept.
Tom Tomorrow paraphrases
an old saying. Also, you should be reading The
Intercept.
Keith Knight imagines
a best-case
scenario (free market edition).
Reuben Bolling brings
us a
story of the unsocial media, from Chagrin Falls OH, which is a
real town.
Red Meat's Ted Johnson and his
son discuss what Mad Magazine's Dave Berg might call the
lighter side of family traditions. Or he might not.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon feels
actively angry about
Chaplain Stainglass’s flippant answer.
Come to Comic Strip of the Day
for the
Benghazi! roundup, stay for the moment of Zen.
"I shall return!" And
he did: "From A to Z-Z-Z-Z", directed in 1953 by Chuck
Jones from a story by Michael Maltese, was the first of five
appearances by young Ralph Phillips. Voice work (all uncredited):
Portland's Own Mel Blanc (Numbers, Indians, Sailors, and Shark), Dick
Beals (Ralph Phillips), Bea Benaderet (Teacher), Norman Nesbitt
(Captain and Sailors), and Marian Richman (simply listed on IMDB
as "Various Voices.") Watch
"From A to Z-Z-Z-Z" at Gogocartoon.
The Modestly-Sized Oregon Toon
Block:
Ex-Oregonian Jack Ohman goes
medieval on the Benghazi! committee.
Hypothetically Ex-Oregonian Jen
Sorensen uses the
word "funnies" ironically.
Matt Bors notices
that something
happened north of the border.
Jesse Springer imagines where
the State of Oregon will end up if cities and counties feel
free to ignore gun laws that they decide might "infringe on
the Second Amendment."
Test your toon captioning midichlorians
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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