Here are some ways you could have
missed the cut this week: Doing another joke about Hillary (or any other
political figure) with a Pinocchio-style nose. Or going for the obvious
"float like a butterfly" approach to Ali's death on Friday.
(Points to Darrin
Bell.) Or doing another attack on Hillary's email servers and
missing email without mentioning the Bush Administration's similar
problems.
And isn't it about time somebody took on the subject of
Trump's mob connections?
Today's toons were selected from by
secret plans developed months in advance at Allied HQ in London, 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, Tom
Toles, Signe
Wilkinson, Joe
Heller, Ted
Rall, Chan
Lowe, Clay
Jones, Rick
McKee, Ingrid
Rice, Matt
Weurker, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Signe
Wilkinson.
p3 Legion of Merit: Jeff
Danziger.
P3 Award of Exceptional
Wonderfulness: Nick Anderson.
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon
Convergence: There were a lot of toons in the running for this –
getting the jump on Ali's death and putting Trump in the Cincinnatti
zoo being the major motivators – but these two, by Steve
Sack and Rick
McKee, took the cake. Special p3
commendation to Rick McKee,
who commented on Facebook that he liked Sack's
better.
Ann Telnaes
saw Speaker Ryan's admission this week that he will vote for the
slo-mo exploding overripe citrus as a good reason to resurrect this
gem from last month. My only question – more urgent now than
when it was originally published – is this: Shouldn't Ryan be in
front of Trump, rather than behind?
Mark Fiore brings up the Riddle
of the American Summer: How do you tell people to stop giving Donald
Trump a free ride in the media without
giving him a free ride in the media?
Tom Tomorrow presents Notes
from the Road to Exhaustion.
Keith Knight does
the math for his newly adopted home state.
Not pretty.
Reuben Bolling brings
another edition of Super-Fun-Pax Comix featuring not only Percival
Dunwoody, Idiot Time Traveler from 1909, but also the
ruination of childhood.
Red Meat's Bug-Eyed Earl has
a dream. Or had one.
Comic Strip of the Day has
a fascinating post on what
you would have seen on the comics page (and elsewhere) on D-Day.
And speaking of D-Day, Donald
Duck had a connection to the Allied invasion of Normandy that I
didn't know about. To celebrate that link, here's a classic:
the 1943 Oscar-winning "Der Fuehrer's Face" starring the
tempermental duck in a Nazi Germany nightmare. Uncredited: Director
Jack Kinney, and voice actors Clarence Nash (Donald) and Billy
Bletcher (Nazi). The short was originally titled "Donald Duck in
Nutzi Land" until Spike Jones and His City Slickers took the
song (written by Oliver Wallace) and made it a hit, at which point
Disney, no fool he, retitled the cartoon to catch the wave. Watch
"Der Fuehrer's Face" at Daily
Motion.
The Right-Sized Oregon Toon Block:
Ex-Oregonian Jack Ohman returns
us to the
ABCs, or thereabouts
Documented
Ex-Oregonian Jen Sorensen steers
away from hard-core political cartoons this week to provide stronger
evidence that the
species is doomed.
Matt Bors explains the
long slog that is Democratic primary politics.
Jesse Springer is off this week.
Test your toon-captioning skills 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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