Cartoonists With Attitude

Click the above image to read a newly minted, freshly colored page of Wanderlost.

Yah, I knooooooow!

I heard this NPR story on the car radio while picking up my son from daycare and almost spit:

John Medved is not happy with the White House move to oust General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner. Medved, the owner of Medved Autoplex in Colorado, says Wagoner was doing a good job reforming the huge company.

Medved says the Obama administration was just trying to send a message. “I guess it wouldn’t be any different than shooting the No. 1 hostage and saying, ‘We’re for real,’ “ Medved says. “I think that it’s a statement to the union and the bondholders that either you make a deal or we will pull it [GM] into bankruptcy.”

Of course, the one difference between Wagoner and the shot hostage? Wagoner got a $23 million severance package. And didn’t get shot. I think that qualifies as a bonus.

As Congress prepares legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions, Senate Democrats seem already ready to throw in the towel:

Republican leaders have made it clear that they will attack Democrats for seeking a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases. Yesterday, House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (Ohio) issued a statement suggesting that the bill would force American manufacturers to move overseas, saying, “The Democrats’ plan to raise energy taxes in the midst of a serious recession is the wrong thing to do and the worst possible time to do it.”

Many officials from industries that stand to be most affected by greenhouse gas limits, by contrast, offered cautious praise for the Democratic draft. The measure is deliberately silent on whether the government will auction off 100 percent of its pollution allowances right away or will distribute some for free, a question that James E. Rogers, chief executive of Duke Energy Co., said “will make or break this bill.”

Emphasis mine. I hope our friends in other countries appreciate the magnitude of our political leadership crisis here in the States. The Democrats are trying to sell out and the Republicans complain they haven’t sold out enough! Anything short of total obeisance to free market “solutions” to global warming (a crisis Republicans refuse to take seriously) risks a Senate filibuster that Democrats are still after all these years of eating shit too timid to confront. Oh my stars, the opposition party might grandstand in a totally foolhardy way and make asses of themselves! What should we do?! We can’t let THAT happen! We might get political advantage and pass a bill that will do a mediocre job which is still better than no job at all! Best forget we ever mentioned it.

UPDATE AGAIN: Here it is.

Live video chat by Ustream

UPDATE: This is still going on, but we’ll be starting late — perhaps 7:45ish, perhaps later. Keep checking in!

I’ll be on Erika Moen’s weekly video podcast tonight — you can watch it here, starting at 7:30 west coast time. We’ll be talking about Hereville and whatever else comes up. And you can also type in questions for me live. (There’s an archive of Erika’s past shows here.)

Erika’s a terrific cartoonist, by the way; I’m a fan of her autobiographical comic strip “DAR: A Super-Girly Top Secret Comic Diary.” (But be warned that Erika’s comics include lots of nudity and jokes about genitals and farts, so willing adults only should check out her comics.)

This is from the back of an old James Bond novel I found.

How could his women be more willing than usual? It would have to be a porno where they toss out any pretense of a plot and get right down to business.

"BRAIN IN A BEAKER"

IN WHICH ALL WILL BE REVEALED!

Just posted a new cartoon up on my websty.

this is the rough…
Only a few more cartoons in the story.

Soon I’ll be heading to NY then New Haven to give a little talk. Details to come.

The stumptown fest is coming up - I’ll be in NY but I will be drawing a t-shirt for the fest. It’s just a cheap little one-color thing but I thought there should be something.

Good podcast on what’s going on with comic distribution these days:
http://www.deconstructingcomics.com/podcast/archive/090330.mp3

I’m still waiting for my New Yorker comic to run but I did get a check from them. The editor there emails out youtube links. Very odd. This is the latest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06CvUjLgK5g

Also, my Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus is in the comic catalogs this month. Please ask your local shops to pick up a copy.

“Making A Budget For Tough Economic Times“…

It’s a cartoon about being in an accountant’s office… you were expecting something visually spectacular?

Click the image to read the cartoon at full size.

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