Cartoonists With Attitude

AAEC Convention Photos, Pt. 1:
Posted by Mikhaela Reid

The Cartoonists With Attitude crew was out in full force at the 50th Anniversary Convention of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (of which organization Ted is Vice President) earlier this month. I had 200+ photos, which I’ve cut down quite a bit and divided into sets. Here’s the first bit (which you can also watch as a slideshow):

AAEC banquet afterparty: Brian McFadden, Masheka Wood, Mikhaela Reid, Ted Rall, Kate Salley Palmer

Brian McFadden makes a fist; Keith Knight picks his nose at the AAEC banquet afterparty; Engaged cartoonists Mikhaela Reid and Masheka Wood at the AAEC banquet

Ted Rall and Tim Eagan at the AAEC banquet; JP Trostle Vandalizes the Signage at the AAEC Hospitality Suite

Joel Pett and Stephanie McMillan; Matt Bors, Masheka Wood and August Pollak; Keith Knight and Masheka Wood

Cartoonists With Attitude Partial Group Photo at the AAEC Banquet (Back row L to R: Mikhaela Reid, Brian McFadden, August Pollak, Keith Knight, Ben Smith;
Front row L to R: Jen Sorensen, Matt Bors, Ruben Bolling)

Democratic Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich and wife Elizabeth Kucinich at the AAEC Banquet

As you can see, Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich was our banquet guest speaker. I have to admit that as much as I’ve been a big fan of Kucinich’s positions on pretty much everything, I was in such a hyped up mood (perhaps a result of sharing one small hotel suite with 5 other cartoonists for four days) that I didn’t really pay attention to his speech.

Coming up: coverage of AAEC and CWA panels and signings, etc.

Crossposted at The Boiling Point.

The Cartoonists With Attitude crew was out in full force at the 50th Anniversary Convention of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists earlier this month. I had 200+ photos, which I’ve cut down quite a bit and divided into sets. Here’s a select few photos from the first bit (which you can also see all 32 photos as a slideshow):

Tom Tomorrow, August Pollak, Mikhaela Reid and Masheka Wood at the AAEC opening cocktail reception

Brian McFadden makes a fist; Keith Knight picks his nose at the AAEC banquet afterparty; Engaged cartoonists Mikhaela Reid and Masheka Wood at the AAEC banquet

Ted Rall and Tim Eagan at the AAEC banquet; JP Trostle Vandalizes the Signage at the AAEC Hospitality Suite

Joel Pett and Stephanie McMillan; Matt Bors, Masheka Wood and August Pollak; Keith Knight and Masheka Wood

Cartoonists With Attitude Partial Group Photo at the AAEC Banquet (Back row L to R: Mikhaela Reid, Brian McFadden, August Pollak, Keith Knight, Ben Smith;
Front row L to R: Jen Sorensen, Matt Bors, Ruben Bolling)

Democratic Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich and wife Elizabeth Kucinich at the AAEC Banquet

As you can see, Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich was our banquet guest speaker. I have to admit that as much as I’ve been a big fan of Kucinich’s positions on pretty much everything, I was in such a hyped up mood (perhaps a result of sharing one small hotel suite with 5 other cartoonists for four days) that I didn’t really pay attention to his speech.

Coming up: coverage of AAEC and CWA panels and signings, etc.

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I discovered that “pee-pee stain” is just as fun to say as “choo-choo train.” I have nothing else to say about this middling cartoonograph.

Next Week: I called an audible and now it’s Drunks in Space. An Unbiased Documentary will follow.

After a couple weeks of being a shitty useless lump, I finally took the bike out to Borderland, my favorite place to ride in southeastern Massachusetts. I wasn’t in as bad shape as I thought I would be and was sailing along. Until a dick of a sapling slapped me in the face. I was on these elevated planks and it quickly threw me off balance.

The bike immediately fell of the planks, but thanks to momentum, I continued forward, sans bicycle. I escaped with just a minor cut and and some bruises that have yet to surface, but I fear my fork went kaput. A mile or so later it started making this horrendous clanging sound and oil started dribbling out of the stanchions.

I’m about to take it to the shop. Let’s hope Ol’ Bikey is fixable and I don’t need to buy a whole new fork.

Max Blumenthal is back again with a video from another conference, Rapture Ready: Christians United for Israel. by “for” Israel they mean for it’s destruction in the second coming.

Well, that’s just a tad disturbing.

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As Michael Moore shows in SiCKO, Guantanamo detainees are given top notch health care while poor Americans are denied treatment and dumped on skid row. hmmm…I wonder if something is wrong with our system. So when conservatives talk about how great evil-doers have it down there–how it’s like a five star resort–they would be right if only for the having no legal rights and being tortured thing, which is kind of strange in light of the fact that they get better health care than many Americans.

And I always love an excuse to draw people getting tortured. Not sure why. I did manage to refrain from drawing a detainee with panties on their head. Cartoonist Masheka Wood recently informed me that I do that a lot.

I’m having continuous flashbacks of the famous “If only he’d knock over a bank or something” cartoon from Doonesbury at this point. I’m far from being part of the knejerk Impeach-Bush-For-A-Thousand-Things bandwagon, but Gonzales? There isn’t even an argument here. He lied under oath. He’s proven to be incompetent. Numerous Republicans have already said he should resign.

Saying this is a no-brainer is an insult to people who lost their brains in industrial accidents. If Gonzales refuses to resign, he needs to be impeached, and Congress has no business taking a vacation until one or the other occurs.

Update: Josh Marshall - Josh Freaking Marshall- is at the point where he wonders why impeachment is still considered “off the table.” As radical political concepts go that’s pretty much Dylan plugging the guitar in.

San Diego is filled with fancy buildings and tan healthy people but it’s still sleazy. I was eating my salad outside the grocery store. A tired looking guy in a t-shirt knocked a chair as he was trying to get past a couple of lunch-eating construction workers. The worker with the most tattoos said “an excuse me would be nice, asshole”. Instead of it just being dropped the t-shirt guy turned and said “excuse me?”, but more as a “what the fuck did you say?” than a “I’m sorry” sort of way. Next thing I know they’re facing off like a couple of roosters, chests out, faces inches away from each other. A “you want to hit me?” was answered with a right hook that barely missed. T-shirt Guy walked away and threw his coke. Yep. I watched a lame-ass almost-fight outside a grocery store, downtown San Diego, a block from the convention surrounded by million dollar condos. A friend of mine in Texas used to say that it doesn’t matter how much perfume you put on crap, it’s still going to stink.

The singers have been rehearsing for their opera performances. They fly in tomorrow morning and hang out for the day. We have shows both Friday and Saturday. I’m pretty excited. The convention gave us a giant ad in the convention program book and people seem genuinely curious about it. People keep asking me if it’s good.