– for reminding America why our
health care should absolutely not be traded on the NYSE.
And, in case you were wondering, I didn't let any Trump/Macy's
Parade balloons jokes or Thanksgiving turkey/Middle-Eastern Turkey
East jokes get through this week. Except for Glenn
McCoy.
But I do have a question: Now that print
phone directories are scarce as turkey's teeth, what do families seat
tots on to let them see over the top of the table at Thanksgiving
dinner? (Thanks, Nate
Beeler!)
And here's a reminder: your humble scribe is nearing the
end of Day Two of the p3 Annual
"Little Drummer Boy" Competition. No wagering please –
this is for exhibition purposes and the joy of the sport only.
Today's toons were selected by a
platoon of multinational tax-dodge experts 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, Signe
Wilkinson, Robert
Ariail, Steve
Benson, Jeff
Danziger, Matt
Davies, Clay
Jones, Dan
Wasserman, Matt
Wuerker, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Lisa
Benson.
p3 Legion of Merit: Stuart
Carlson.
p3 "I Get It" Award: Joel
Pett.
p3 Croix de Guerre: Tim
Eagan.
Ann Telnaes moves up the
gift return timeline by a few weeks.
Mark Fiore is thankful
for crayons and future Fox News pundits, in that order.
Tom Tomorrow salutes the land of
the spree and the
home of the knave.
Keith Knight wasn't
by any means the first gentleman toonist to get there, but it
did make me chuckle when I pictured the Bethlehem inn as part of
the Trump hotel chain.
Reuben Bolling salutes
the
latest ISIS recruitment drive.
Red Meat's Ted Johnson relies on
a
simple home (improvement) remedy.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon marks
the holiday weekend with references to the
Kantian imperative and centaur erotica.
Comic Strip of the Day pays
tribute to little weasels, futile gestures, and a comic strip he
didn't understand at the time.
I came to tell you that you could
axe me to marry you (hyuck, hyuck, hyuck)! Last
week I mentioned that Bluto's
theme in the very first Popeye animated short in 1933 was lifted
from a bawdy 19th century drinking song called "Bollocky Bill
the Sailor." Two years later, director Dave Fleischer, with
uncredited musical director Sammy Timberg (who composed some
memorable work over the years, but was never shy about lifting from
the public domain when it suited his needs) took it all the way, in
an exploration of the passive-aggressive relationship between Popeye
and Olive, with "Beware of Barnacle Bill." There are fairly
tame versions of the song (like this
1930 recording, featuring Hoagy Carmichael, Bix Beiderbeck on
cornet, Tommy Dorsey on trombone, Benny Goodman on clarinet, and Gene
Krupa on drums), but the
original version(s), surely at least somewhat familiar to 1935
theater audiences, was pretty raw. (Uncredited voice work by Billy
Costello as Popeye, William Pennell as Bluto/Barnacle Bill, and Mae
Questel as The Slender One.)
The
We-Don't-Check-Papers-At-The-Borders Oregon Toon Block:
Ex-Oregonian Jack Ohman puts the
American holiday season in
its proper perspective.
Possibly Ex-Oregonian Jen Sorensen
looks at Thanksgiving,
past, present, and future.
Matt Bors points
out – quite correctly – that it's a fine line between the
drunken, opinionated boor at the end of the bar and . . . well,
you'll see.
Jesse Springer is discouraged
– and why wouldn't he be? – by the recent
assault on the campus of Lewis & Clark College.
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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