My favorite comic convention,
SPX in Bethesda, MD, is coming up. The special theme this year is "Outside Looking In: Alternative Political Cartooning in 2008." I'll be on a panel Sunday at 2:30pm, along with Ruben Bolling, Keith Knight, and Mikhaela Reid, about drawing the election; moderator is Marc Singer. Tom Tomorrow, who has a brand-new book out called
The Future's So Bright, I Can't Bear to Look, will be there on Saturday. Lots and lots of great non-political types will be on hand too, like Dutch cartoonist
Joost Swarte.
Here's a flyer I drew for the convention with relevant info (I was given the list of guests, didn't pick'em myself; other flyers list other people):
Judging by the amount of traffic this cartoon has generated today, I think it's safe to say people have strong feelings about Sarah Palin.
This strip was built around my desire to draw McCain in a gerbil ball. 
Wanna hear something weird? Just after I penciled the caption to the second panel about A-ha's "Take on Me," that song actually started playing in the coffee shop I was sitting in. Freaked me out a little.
As a reminder, my election commentary is appearing on C-VILLE Weekly's website. Tomorrow afternoon Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, and Goodyear sex discrimination victim Lilly Ledbetter are reportedly appearing in Charlottesville; I'm going to try to go and take some pictures.
Some good news: C-VILLE Weekly has kindly invited me to continue blogging through the election, so for the next two months my political observations will appear on a page called The Final Countdown, which picks up where my Democratic National Convention blog left off. I'll continue to post cartoons here, but probably not much else until mid-November.
Just a thought exercise in what John McCain might say if he really were an independent-minded reformer. TPM has a great little video up today about that anti-mav, Sarah Palin. I propose a new slang term for what the Repubs have been doing: "mavwashing."
