Cartoonists With Attitude

Sometime tomorrow, after I shake off the New Year’s hangover and remove the noisemakers and bottle caps stuck in my beard, I will be updating this website and officially ending the BFW Holiday Bargain.

And as 2010 rears its head like Putin over Alaska and the International Date Line, I’d like to thank everyone who bought Fun Stuff or donated in 2009. Newspaper page counts were way down this year, and you all helped turn a shit sandwich into a peanut butter & jelly one. Next year, let’s aim for bumping it up all the way to roast beef!

Posting and other internet-based tomfoolery will return to their normal levels next week.

Over the weekend, Coire made the Gingerbread Darwins from last week’s comic a reality and sent me a picture.

A little known fact about Big Fat Whale is that it is the Martha Stewart Living of alt-weekly comics.

I’m finally back home and settling in. While I’m catching up on emails and RSS feeds, here’s a reminder that I can only guarantee delivery before Christmas for orders placed by the end of Monday, the 14th. It’s too late to guarantee international orders, but they might get to you in time if you’re quick. Visit the BFW store right now if you’re a shopping procrastinator like myself.

The Holiday Bargain is still going on, and will continue until the end of the month. Or more accurately, it will be in effect until I recover from my New Year’s Eve hangover and update the website sometime in the afternoon on January 1, 2010.

Sorry I haven’t been able to keep up with the BFW Quickies while I’m on this Mid-Atlantic trip. Packing, unpacking, and cursing at the dumb, bossy lady who lives inside of my GPS has seriously hampered my production schedule.

But with the help of a six-year-old fan of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, I was able to whip this up on Friday:

I would’ve added a fart cloud enveloping Endor and gassing the Ewoks to death, but everyone knows Han farted first.

Mike, who previously pulled a Full-Lincoln, threw a couple bucks to my favorite animal shelter, and as a result, he got this doodle up on the blog, as per his specifications.

If you want me to be your picture bitch, donate, then send me an email with your doodle request, and it’ll be up on the blog not long after that. If you don’t donate, Sorbet will call you a shithead.

This Sunday is APCSM’s first Paws in the Park event at Borderland State Park. It’s the perfect event to get some air for you and your pets before winter traps you all inside with each others’ farts.

I drew this entirely on a tablet for practice. I’ll try to make the Tuesday Toon a semi-regular feature on the blog to force me to improve. Hopefully it can become a great way to purge some of the dumber ideas from my brain.

Thanks to everyone who braved the remnants of Danny and came out to Saturday’s slideshow. It was a lot of fun, and I hope it was for you too. (Thanks for the beans Dan!)

One of the slides featured my first comic strip, DAP, which I drew when I was 10-years-old. It was a blatant ripoff of Garfield. I scanned two comics, but only used the first one, since it was in color. Here’s the other one that’s sitting on my hard drive; A very meta (for a 10-year-old) Dap cartoon:

In the later part of the notebook, Dap gets Poochy-fied, then I try drawing Beavis and Butthead for no good reason.

Mike Miliard and I chatted, and he converted my ums, ahs, and grunts into an article about Big Fat Whale, Saturday’s slideshow, and the state of alt-weekly comics.

Also in this week’s issue, Mike has a funny interview with John Oliver, of The Daily Show and Bugle fame. He’s in town for a show at the Wilbur Theatre tomorrow.

Contrary to the message of the cartoon this image was taken from, Ted Kennedy was one of the few Democrats on Capitol Hill who showed a spine and called out the Iraq debacle for what it was/is. Although I think he didn’t do enough to end the war, I included him in this cartoon because an Irish guy with a farmer tan is always funny. (Just ask anyone who saw me on the beach last weekend.)

Obviously, Ted wasn’t all roses. I think he could’ve done more to call out his weak-ass colleagues instead of focusing his ire entirely on Bush and Republicans. His opposition to Cape Wind reeked of NIMBYism, and I mocked him for  it. I also made a hacky joke about his alcoholism that referred to it, but I don’t stand by that one. It was cheap.

Lastly, STEPHEN LYNCH SHOULD NOT TAKE TED’S SEAT! I grew up in that guy’s district, and he’s a pandering, weak-shit, turd. It belongs to a true-blue Massachusetts Liberal. What other state can elect a Senator to counter a cracker from the South? Come on Massachusetts! Let’s not pull a Wellstone and send our version of Norm Coleman to DC.

Good news folks! CWA friend and colleague Keith Knight will be joining me at The Burren Saturday, August 29th, 4-7PM.

Just two miles away from where Henry Louis Gates and Sgt. James Crowley infamously became bestest buds, Keef and I will be holding a beer summit of our own. Join us for some drinks, a slideshow, and booksigning in the heart of Davis Square.

The event is free with a cash bar. I’m trying to get a rough head count, so send me an email, leave a comment, or RSVP on Facebook if you’re attending.

I need your help promoting the event. Tell your friends! And here’s a flyer you can print out and post around town.

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