It’s only 7:30 and I’m already torn over what’s the most disturbing thing I’ve seen this morning:
1. Michelle Malkin offers a “commentary” on Democrats by dressing up as a schoolgirl and jumping up and down on video for her viewers; or
2. Chris Muir offers a “commentary” on Hillary Clinton’s politiking by drawing her in blackface.
Only one cartoon this week. I’ve been busy working on a few different comics for magazines and getting multiple major projects lined up. Can’t talk about them yet, but soon…
A new federal study shows that abstinence education has no effect whatsoever on delaying sexual activity. Shocking!
Also, there really is a (comedy) movie called Killer Condom: The Rubber That Rubs You Out, though I haven’t seen it myself.
OK, so maybe New York charging cars $8 to cut down on pollution and traffic and improve public transport won’t stave off environmental apocalypse, but it’s a start. (Personally, I’d rather see NO personal cars in the city—maybe then I’d be brave enough to take my bike into Manhattan!).
A sequel to 2005’s “Sick Confessions of a Serial Bomber!” I did it before I went away on vacation, and it already feels pretty dated. Ah well.
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P.P.S. My first book collection, Attack of the 50-Foot Mikhaela!, goes on sale in just a few short weeks!
Some articles that inspired Rove Ninja:
Patrick Martin also suggests that the White House is preparing to sacrifice Alberto in order to save Rove’s ninja ass. Any day now… maybe…
Shorter RedState: Bush visiting troops will make an excellent political backdrop for a statement about how Democrats are using troops as a political backdrop.
They really can’t even hear themselves as they talk, can they?
So the tentative official release date for Attack of the 50-Foot Mikhaela: Cartoons By Mikhaela Reid (i.e. the day you’ll be able to start ordering it on this here fine web site) is May 11. It may be sooner, it may be later! But I’m going to need some serious help promoting this thing, for several reasons:
Anyway, if you could do any of the following, my eternal gratitude is yours:
So yes… please help an angry cartoonist out! I’ll have postcards, web ads, promo materials and emails and other tools that should make it reasonably easy for anyone who wants to help!
*EXTRA!! EXTRA!!
I’ll be sharing a sliver of a table at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival at UCLA THIS WEEKEND. Look for me at the Mc Sweeney’s table and pick up my new (th)ink collection, “Are We Feeling Safer Yet?”
*APE 2007 WRAP-UP..
Another fine APE has come and gone. This one was special because it was the first one since moving down to Los Angeles…
*THURSDAY: The first night up, Kerstin and I stayed at the City Center Hostel on Ellis and Larkin Streets, courtesy of my olde co-worker, Greg. It’s a great hostel, although not the greatest part of town. But if you’ve lived in any sort of big city situation, you’d be used to it.
We heard that Aaron McGruder was being interviewed by my man Jeff Chang at the Jewish Community Center in town. We whizzed on over there after meeting up with New York cartoonists Mikhaela Reid and Masheka Wood at Mark Fiore’s Third Thursdays gathering at Dave’s, a dive bar downtown.
The interview was cool. And the great Morrie Turner, the first black nationally syndicated cartoonist (”Wee Pals”), was in the audience. It was the first time I’d seen him since he had a bit of a medical scare a coupla months ago. We took some nice pix and went out to dinner after.
*FRIDAY: The annual Last Gasp/APE Pre-Reg party was fine and dandy with many of the usual suspects. Plus plenty of good food. It was here where we hooked up with Steve Notley, who was down from Seattle, and Shannon Wheeler, down from Portland. We split the party and joined the rest of our Cartoonists With Attitude colleagues at Daves.
*SATURDAY: The Alternative Press Expo officially begins! I did a panel on socially relevant comics with folks like Paige Braddock and Abby Denson. It was jolly good and well received. A lotta folks came by the table after. Good stuff.
*That evening, Kerstin and I had a great dinner with Rod Gilchrist, director of the Cartoon Art Museum, and his lovely wife. We were prepared for a night of revelry, with an infinite amount of parties and openings to attend..
..but we just decided to go back to where we were staying and get a good night’s sleep.
*SUNDAY: The second day was actually busier than the first day. I was quite surprised and damned pleased. After we wrapped it up, Kerstin, Notley and I went to Tommy’s Joynt for our annual Hofbrau type meal.
*I didn’t pick up much at the event (i gots ta make $$$!!), but I did see this really incredible prototype of a book from Chris Lanier. Chris is a great cartoonist/animator /journalist who served on the board of the Cartoon Art Museum with me. And he did this great interview with me.
*Also, my man Paul Madonna has the first collection of his All Over Coffee. I saw a prototype of the book and it looks beautiful.
*EMAIL OF THE WEEK..
Dear Keith:
I really liked your comic on Jackie Robinson today. I
thought it was the best commentary I’ve heard in all the hubbub about
the landmark. It’s funny that there was so much commotion about him on
his 60th anniversary of breaking the “color barrier” in baseball. You’d
think it would have been a bigger deal on the 50th. Anyway, he was
really before my time (I was born in 1950). I was a Pirates fan because
my father was from Pittsburgh, and so my guy was always Roberto Clemente
(still is). The best highlight from his career, for me, was when he was
named MVP of the 1971 World Series, and the reporter interviewed him.
Even though he could speak English well, he chose to respond in Spanish,
and he gave a little speech about how proud he was to be from the
Caribbean and representing Hispanic ballplayers. A very cool moment
from a real saint of a guy. Hope all is well.
A. (in Gainesville, Fl.)
This needs to be repeated after every faux-Libertarian rant about smoking bans, fast food regulation, helmet laws, and so on ad nauseum [emphasis mine]:
This clearly expresses a fundamental tenet of conservative/libertarian thinking: that engaging in risky behavior with serious social costs is an entitlement. People who are injured by metal bats, or fall ill from smoking or fatty food, cost the rest of us money. We pay their emergency room bill, their Medicare bills or their Social Security disablity insurance. Only someone willing to forgo those benefits should have the right to also opt out of public health laws like those passed by the New York City Council, or pre-existing ones requiring that motorcyclists wear helmets and drivers wear seat belts. But Beston, like all conservatives, makes no serious suggestion about offering such an option in our society (much less explaining how it would be practically possible.) Instead he merely sneers at the New York City government’s efforts to lower the costs that he, like all other taxpayers, will ultimately bear[.]
As I’ve mentioned before in conversations about “South Park Republicanism,” Libertarian logic is our nation’s epitome of selfishness. I’ll clarfiy Ben’s statement just a little: when boiled down to a single line, the true fundamental tenet of big-L Libertarianism is being inconsolably outraged over any instance, no matter how small, of being told you personally can’t do something, no matter how it affects anyone else on the face of the planet. It doesn’t actually matter if you want to smoke in a restaurant or play with a metal bat or draw a racist cartoon of the Prophet Muhammed, it just matters that someone said you can’t, or in most cases merely shouldn’t, and well that’s just too much for someone as enlightened as themselves to bear.
A fourth-grader brought a grenade to school today. This is, of course, the liberal media culture’s fault. I expect the editorials from the National Review any minute now chastizing local security for not shooting the child on sight immediately.
Of course, we also know this is just a sign of how the fragmentary-explosive-hating liberal agenda threatens our children. We need legislation allowing elementary school teachers to carry grenade launchers immediately to prevent potential disasters like this.
