Cartoonists With Attitude

I know you come here for cutting-edge humor so I thought I’d post some halloween jokes from the Weekly Woof cartoon I do for a kid’s site.

Awesome, a two-fer of comic-related goodness from Campus Progress: first, enjoy Jen Sorensen interviewing Tom Tomorrow, and then, because there are a multitude of awesome female cartoonists, check out their article on female webcartoonists.

From an article entitled “Precarious Manhood,” which was referred to on a guest post yesterday:¹

If manhood is viewed as elusive and tenuous, two implications are that (a) challenges to men’s manhood will provoke anxiety and threat-related emotions among men and (b) men will often feel compelled to demonstrate their manhood through action, particularly when it has been challenged.

There are undoubtedly many actions that men can perform to bolster their status as “real” men and thus assuage their feelings of gender role stress even if these actions provide only temporary relief from masculinity concerns. For example, men  may  display  manhood  by  drinking  heavily,  driving  fast, excelling at sports, making lots of money, bragging about their sexual  exploits,  and  fathering  many children, to name a few.

Indeed, across several empirical demonstrations of responses to gender identity threats, men who underwent challenges to their masculinity showed decreased liking for other nonprototypical members of their gender in-group (Schmitt & Branscombe, 2001), projected assumptions of homosexuality onto a male target (Bramel, 1963), sexually harassed a woman (Maass, Cadinu, Guarnieri, & Grasselli, 2003), took stronger levels of electric shock (Holmes, 1971),  and  overestimated  their  height  and  sexual  experience (Cheryan, Cameron, Katagiri, & Monin, 2008).

1. Vandello, J.A., Bosson, J.K., Cohen, D., Burnaford, R.M. & Weaver, J.R. (2008). Precarious Manhood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95 (6), 1325 – 1339. Pdf link.

Hulu- you know, that insanely popular and well-viewed website that shows tons and tons of content everyone wants, has suddenly realized that asking people to pay for it might be something of a plausible idea.

Stay tuned for the web-based shit fits over this, what is clearly an outrageous and unacceptable standard in the modern economy, and by economy I mean you shouldn’t have to pay for things that you want.

"The Fugitive," Directed by Roman Polanski. 

New cartoon is up and ready for viewing. You may laugh, if you wish. If not, then remember all the soldiers who fought and died for your right to not laugh at political snark. Yeah, who’s laughing now? Thought so.

BTW, I can’t believe I drew Glenn Beck again. I really want to avoid that in the future. If we still remember him in 30 years, we will not have grown as a culture.

John Stewart must reserve his hard-hitting interview approach exclusively for neo-cons and lousy pundits. When SuperFreakonomics author Steve Levitt was on the last night, Stewart’s questions seemed written by the book publisher’s PR department.

I don’t expect Stewart to rake everyone over the coals like Jim Cramer and I’m all for contrarian opinions, but if a guest says, “I’m of the idea that we don’t have to pay the price for polluting” the least you could do is play devil’s advocate for a quick second.

The only thing hard-hitting about this interview was the force at which Stewart’s lips smacked against Levitt’s ass.

Via "news from me":  a chart showing what's happened to newspaper circulations since I started my newspaper comic strip.

I’ve been evacuating my mom’s house of my old crap. I have boxes of stuff from almost every stage of my life. It’s like I took a consumer-creative dump and never flushed the toilet. I have tons of old sketchbooks, letters, drawings, paintings, that are rotting away in boxes. A lot of it is stuff I have even forgotten I’ve done. One glance brings back all the memories. I can remember exactly what was thinking when I did it. Some of it is good, some bad. I had a lot of insecurity, anxiety, worry, doubt. Most is a desire to be better and embarrassment. Pretty much the same as I feel now. It’s a wonder I get anything done at all.

The result of my consumerism is a ton of old comic books. I’m sort of excited to reread my Spiderman issues 20-80, Fantastic Four 50-150, X-Men 1-66 and 93-150. I think I have the whole run of Sub-Mariner, Wolf-Man and Dracula.

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

Proponents of trickle down employ a curious logic: transfer more and more money to the rich and it will lift up the poor and middle-class. They never seem to be satisfied with decades of tax cuts or exorbitant compensation, always demanding more under the guise that it will help everyone beneath them. Maybe they have a plan…