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*OKAY…I’LL TRY TO CATCH UP.. Kudos to everybody …

Thursday, March 29th, 2007 by Keef

*OKAY…I’LL TRY TO CATCH UP..
Kudos to everybody who came by the table at the Anarchist Bookfair in S.F. a coupla weeks ago. It was the first time the event was two days. And Sunday was shockingly busier than Saturday.

It didn’t start out that way, though. Sunday morning started off with a coupla vendors gettin’ into it over body odor. Those of you who have ever been to an anarchist bookfair know what I’m talking about.

Anyway..I got dragged into it and I said there’s probably a good reason why this was only one day for so many years: cuz we can only take each other for about a day.

They both ended up mad at me instead of each other… I’m glad I could help.

*UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA WRAP-UP..
The Gainesville Fl. campus looked just like you would picture a college campus to look like. Brick, ivy, eager students, stoners.

It was great to be out there. The attendance for my slideshow was slim, but the audience had some raucous debate about race. And I got to hang out with some local artists post-event at one of the finest restaurants in the area. Cheers!

Thanks to Albert, Carolyn, Terry and everybody who made the event happen. I hope to be back in the Fall!!

*NEXT UP..
The Alternative Press Expo in April (the 20th and 21st)

I’m also working on the L.A Times Festival of Books. Any cartoonists out there looking to share a table?

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The Muppets Take Drugs

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 by August J. Pollak

There’s wrong, and there’s wrong, and then there’s this.

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Fright and Flight — new cartoon 3/28

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 by Stephanie McMillan

In today’s cartoon, the bee goes to a better place. Click on the fragment below for the full cartoon at comics.com:

The more you click on my cartoons at comics.com during 2007, the better the chances they’ll appear in daily city papers in 2008. If you like Minimum Security, please see a new cartoon each weekday!

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Not Like You — new cartoon 3/27

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 by Stephanie McMillan

In yesterday’s cartoon, bee people are not like human people. Click on the fragment below for the full cartoon at comics.com:

The more you click on my cartoons at comics.com during 2007, the better the chances they’ll appear in daily city papers in 2008. If you like Minimum Security, please see a new cartoon each weekday!

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An open memo to RedState

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 by August J. Pollak

Ummm…. guys? There is a real easy way for ardent war supporters such as yourselves to get free airfare to Iraq.

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Drudge’s Politicodependent

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 by August J. Pollak

The developing MO of the Politico is really starting to bother me for two reasons: one, I really want there to be more legitimate, intelligent online media resources out there, especially political ones; and two, I’m thrilled at the Politico making matt Weurker a rare new hire in the rapidly-dying field of staff cartoonists.

That said, I don’t understand how anyone finds nonsense like this acceptable. The purpose of journalism, especially new publications operating under the guise of being legitimate competitors to places like Salon and TalkingPointsMemo, is to not be Matt Drudge. Instead, not only is the Politico apparently whoring themselves to Drudge for traffic, they’re adapting his process of “reporting.”

Greenwald has asked the questions but honestly I already know the answer. It’s obvious Politico is hedging its bets on stories because it’s exactly what Drudge does. Any new evidence on that girl Kerry was having an affair with? Everyone remember that one? To return to this site’s namesake, we’re rapidly entering Some Guy With a Website territory, and that shouldn’t just be negative for the Politico, it should be embarrassing.

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This Week’s Strip: “The White House Science Fair”

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 by Jen Sorensen

This one began as a cartoon about the “new” scientific method employed by the GOP — 1. Decide the results you want; 2. Fudge the data; 3. Announce conclusions (see step one) — and then it morphed into a science fair which put that method into practice. I thought about including a public service announcement for kids saying, “This is your brain. This is your brain on empiricism” with the visual of Satan twirling a brain-kabob over a pit of open flames, but there was no room, and I thought that might be a little stock, as the members of Metallica say in “Some Kind of Monster.”

I must confess, as an elementary-school student, I used to get really excited about the science fair. I won a few ribbons, too, though I suspect my success was partly due to my elaborately-illustrated displays.

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The origins of the phrase “Multiple Choice Mitt”…

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 by Mikhaela Reid

“Multiple Choice Mitt” seems to be the nickname of choice for Mitt Romney in the lefty blogosphere lately. Does anyone know how/when this happened? I’m assuming it’s a reference to Romney’s rapidly “evolving” views on abortion and gay rights.

I’m curious because back in October 2003 I did a cartoon called Multiple Choice Mitt, the original of which was purchased by the ACLU of Massachusetts and given as a gift to Massachusetts Speaker of the House Salvatore F. DiMasi. The cartoon was actually about the death penalty and not other issues, but it’s just a weird coincidence, so I’m wondering where I got the term. Is it just the fun alliteration? I tried googling it and I couldn’t find any pre-2007 examples, but there have to be some out there as I believe I was referring to something in particular (yes, I’m losing my memory at the age of 26).

Update: I looked back at my notes from 2003 and discovered that I was referencing the same thing the lefty bloggers are–a famous debate between Ted Kennedy and Mitt Romney in 1994, when Romney claimed that he was strongly pro-choice and Kennedy countered that he was really “multiple choice”. Mystery solved!

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Killed Cartoons

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 by Matt Bors

I recently picked up Killed Cartoons: Casualties In The War On Expression Edited by David Wallis, who previously Edited Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot To Print. The book features killed comics and the stories behind their death, including comics from CWA members Ted Rall, Mikhaela Reed, and Keith Knight.

Sprinkled in between the comics are a few killed illustrations that are extremely tame and shouldn’t have been included. But I guess I’m a little biased as to why–I submitted the one cartoon of mine that was killed but it didn’t make the cut. In fact, many of the cartoons themselves are tame. It’s is a great resource for those interested in political cartooning, but don’t prepare to be blown away by the controversial nature of the comics. This book is really a testament to timid Editors and depressing to an artist who sees the various offenses you can’t get away with on an Editorial page.

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Law & Order: Very Special Victims

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 by August J. Pollak

Josh Marshall (and readers) provide insight into why Monica Goodling claiming she has to plead the Fifth is ludicrous. Keeping in mind, as you read the explanations of her reasoning, that she worked in the Department of Justice.

Look, I’m not a lawyer, so I’ll leave the heavy legal analysis of this stuff to the legal people. But I know enough about law to understand that you can’t plead the Fifth to protect yourself from a future perjury charge, as the only way to commit perjury is to knowingly lie under oath during that very testimony. You would think a Department of Justice employee would understand that to avoid that risk, you simply have to tell the truth in your testimony, but apparently, Goodling needs to plead the Fifth because she’s not sure she’ll do that.

Every day, you think it can’t get any more absurd. Every single day.

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