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Black Comix: The perfect gift for your comics-loving sweetheart.*

Monday, February 14th, 2011 by Masheka Wood


blackcomixbook

Get Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture from here ** or schlep your lazy ass to the nearest bookery (if they’re cool, they’ll have it). It’s 175 pages of hardcover goodness from, and about, some of the best artists out there.

And the best part is not only am I profiled in the book, but I have a little illo on the bottom left corner of the cover.

See the Black Comix blog for more info.

*Not recommended for lonely racists.

**although you won’t get it shipped by Valentine’s Day, it should arrive by February 19th for Valenteen’s Day, a holiday I just invented.

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Old Cartoon Comes to Life, in My Backyard

Thursday, January 20th, 2011 by Cronjob


The Gentrifying Blob – May 2007

It was announced last week that the affordable, multicultural, Hi-Lo grocery store up the street from me will soon become a Whole Foods. Boo. But on the bright side, if they get a beer & wine license, I may be able to brown bag some good beers while doing my laundry across the street. At least until the laundromat gets bought out and becomes an organic dog sweater boutique.


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Blizzard Reading Material

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011 by Cronjob

Thanks to my narcissistic Google Alert for “Big Fat Whale,” I found this great interview with Mike Flugennock in the Washington City Paper. There’s a lot of great stuff in there, but my favorite quote has to be this:

WCP: What do you do when you’re in a rut or have writer’s block?

MF: There’s really no single thing I do in this situation. Generally, what helps—at least for me—is to just kick back, let go, and not agonize too much. Smoking a bowl and watching Meet The Press (or something like it) also helps; there’s nothing quite being pleasantly blazed while watching a bunch of self-important Washington “insiders” taking themselves far too seriously to break down my writer’s block.

But seriously kids, don’t do drugs. Unless you like fun.


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Better Stall Tactics Than Larry Craig

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 by Matt Bors

John McCain is determined to be on the wrong side of history on this one. But why? Revenge for Obama beating him? Dementia? Wanting to make it to the grave before the queers can serve? I never pegged McCain as the typical closeted anti-gay gay guy, but I’m starting to wonder if he had a little too much fun in the Navy. Now that every study and poll has confirmed he’s the last person in America to care if members of the military are Arab language specialists who stop terrorist attacks while happening to be gay, it seems clear he just really, really doesn’t like gay people.

But as we learned during the 2008 campaign, you can never question McCain’s motives. They are pure, delivered with Straight Talk™ and with the best interests of the country in mind–especially members of the military. Unless they be gay.

But pretty cool about that bacteria.

Previous DADT cartoons here, here, here, here and with McCain popping up in this one.

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Gay Agenda

Monday, December 6th, 2010 by Matt Bors

The gay agenda sure is vast. I thought Delguadio’s worry presented a sort of conundrum for the gay hating, security state loving conservative. What’s worse: risking death by a Muslim terrorist or being touched by a gay man? It seems they work in concert to make things hard, so to speak, for people like Delguadio. Here’s his full quote on gay pat-downs:

“It’s the federal employee’s version of the Gay Bill of Special Rights… That means the next TSA official that gives you an ‘enhanced pat down’ could be a practicing homosexual secretly getting pleasure from your submission,” Delgaudio wrote.

It’s the term “practicing homosexual” that clues you in to this guy being a closest case like just about every gay-hating asshat. The only people who use a term like “practicing homosexual” are those who think being gay is a choice–and practice it quite regularly themselves.

Wednesday: McCain on DADT

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Turd of the week

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 by Matt Bors

Does Bob Gorrell even try? I love the “sincere apologies to Bill Watterson and Calvin” for stealing an image Bill Watterson never licensed in the first place.

Bob Gorrell
Creators Syndicate Inc.
Nov 30, 2010

While most “turds” are awarded with an actual turd rating around here, we’ll go ahead and make a special exception for this one…

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The Empire Has No Clothes

Monday, November 29th, 2010 by Matt Bors

Unfortunately, the point of this cartoon was illustrated last week (after I filed it) by the man here in Portland who was arrested for trying to detonate a fake bomb the Feds sold him. At this point I’m very skeptical of radical Muslims’ ability to produce an explosive that works. Growing up in the Midwest, you have to learn to acquire or make explosives just to keep life interesting. Maybe terrorists should train in Ohio instead of Pakistan. And now that you can’t even get an unmolested colostomy bag on a plane, I’m betting we’ll see attacks in the remaining places you can travel without having a government agent inspect your breast implant.

After a maniac incinerates a city bus in five o’clock traffic, will all buses require pat-downs and body scanners? It’s the same logic that lead us to implement this system in air ports. I’m sure you can think of a thousand reasons why it’s different, wouldn’t happen, couldn’t be implemented, and wouldn’t be tolerated by the public, all of which will be ignored when they start up the program.

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♫ Bibi I Got Your Money ♫

Friday, November 26th, 2010 by Matt Bors

Israel may halt its settlements long enough for the construction crews to haul in the military aid we are giving them.

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Refudiate

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 by Matt Bors

Sarah Palin’s power is vast. Her every utterance is a news story. Her offspring are propelled through mind-numbing dance shows by her legion of fans. She can torpedo parts of legislation with a Facebook update or wreak havoc on the English language with a single tweet.

The New Oxford American Dictionary recently announced its Word Of The Year is “refudiate.” This doesn’t mean it has officially become a word, mind you, but it may if people like me ironically adopt it as slang for long enough. There were a lot of mash-ups, tech terms and buzzwords in 2010. “Refudiate” was probably chosen less for its validity as a word and more for its ability to have new stories written about the fact that dictionaries are still printed.

Sarah Palin will probably run for president simply to prevent anyone from getting more airtime than her, drop out right before she loses the nomination, claim she was bullied by the media and ride the sympathy wave into the nearest television studio to sign an eight-figure deal, tweeting made up words the entire way.

Friday: Peace Bribes

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Don’t Grope Me, Bro

Monday, November 22nd, 2010 by Matt Bors

Government agents are groping us and molesting our children. Obama, once again a mile behind the public and unable to relate, robotically assures us he “gets it” while actually being in a position to, you know, do something about it. Even conservatives who personally volunteered their colons for inspection during the Bush years are second guessing the security state they’ve cheered on for a decade. Everyone is wondering if we can just go back to doing this to Muslims only, please.

Personally, I’d rather live with the risks of terrorism than be inconvenienced and violated like this. Statistically there isn’t much of a need to worry and if someone in the seat next to me tries to light their shoe on fire, I guess I get be on CNN that day. One way or the other.

If you are flying for the holiday I wish you a hassle-free experience. If you opt for the body scanner, I hope the radiation is as low as they claim and the inevitable naked pictures leaked to the internet by an incompetent and/or perverted TSA agent won’t be yours.

Here’s a TSA comic I drew around the time of the underwear bomber. I have three comics coming out this week so check back here on your smart phone if you need a break form the relatives.

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