Cartoonists With Attitude

The new T-Shirts are in, and they kick all kinds of ass (thanks to Django at Seatthole). I’ve anointed this one with the above title, available in BLACK and NAVY… part of a new series of more general-interest T-Shirts that I’ve come up with. For now, this design will be only be available at SPX and Stumptown (along with new buttons, prints, and other stuff), so come see me at the shows! Afterwards, they’ll all be going up on the website for everybody to purchase…

Comixpedia has a detailed interview of ATTITUDE 3:

Ted Rall is a fairly well-known, controversial editorial cartoonist. He’s also been the editor for a series of books called Attitude: The New Subversive Cartoonists. In the third installment, Rall turns his attention to the web and manages to cover a lot of the better opinionated webcomics out there today. In an introductory essay to the book, Rall recounts the shrinking market for the traditional daily newspaper editorial cartoonists as well as the saturation of the “alternative weekly” format. The implication being that he is has rounded up a collection of cartoonists every bit as good as those occupying the limited space of America’s newsprint. And for the most part I think he has…

Due to an error in editing, my column this week refered to George W. Bush as “the president.” I apologize for the error and any confusion it may have caused.

There’s a SILK ROAD TO RUIN-centered interview with me in the current issue of the Raleigh/Durham-based alternative weekly The Independent:

Ted Rall is best known as a political cartoonist and columnist, but he is also a reporter who has covered Central Asia for nearly a decade. He broadcast live daily reports from Afghanistan during the 2001 war, and has written about the region for the Village Voice, POV and other magazines. Rall has collected his experiences in a new 300-page book, Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?, which he describes as a blend of graphic journalism, travelogue and analysis. The author recently sat down with the Indy’s J.P. Trostle (who was also Rall’s editor on Silk Road), to discuss the disappearance of Henderson native Major Jill Metzger–and why the United States has a military base in Kyrgyzstan in the first place.
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The pope has been meeting with Muslims lately and talking about the need to open a dialogue between faiths. I’m all for religions existing peacefully with one another, but I’m not sure exactly what it is he thinks this will achieve. The pope should just say what it is on his mind: every Muslim will burn in hell for eternity unless they accept Jesus as their savior. It wouldn’t be considered nice for him to say this, but does he not believe it? Is it not the only way to heaven?

Many religious progressives see just about everyone going to heaven as long as they’ve been a relatively nice person. But I would have to ask them, if you can get into heaven without Jesus then what was the point of him coming here? What is the point of religion?

Muslim leaders don’t tend to be very wishy washy. They know the pope will go to hell unless he immediately rejects his satanic religion so they’ve done what any reasonable person holding that knowledge would do and called on the him to immediately convert to The One True Religion, Islam.