Cartoonists With Attitude

TIME breastfeeding original

Matt Bors — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:27:38 +0000

Here’s the original of the breastfeeding cartoon from earlier this week, drawn on 8.5 x 11 bristol board. Shoot me an email if you’d like to own it.

Congratulations…

Ruben Bolling — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:20:49 +0000

… to Stephen Fernie (AlbinoFlea) and Sue Trowbridge, who were randomly selected from the list of INNER HIVE members to each win a signed/sketched Tom the Dancing Bug book.

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Pope Original

Matt Bors — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:10:29 +0000

Here’s the original of the Pope comic from last week, drawn on 8.5 x 11 bristol board. Shoot me an email if you’d like to own it.

Update: SOLD

A Useless Lecture Series

Ruben Bolling — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:12:44 +0000

On June 5, I'll be doing a presentation at the monthly NYC comedy show Adult Education, pontificating on the theme of "cliches" and trying hard to find a point to the extremely pointless feature, Super-Fun-Pak Comix.

Other performers are Timothy Burke, Annia Ciezadlo, Ken Wheaton and host Charles Star.

My pledge to you: If you attend, YOU WILL HAVE SUPER FUN.

So: Information is here.

June 5, 7pm

Adult Education

at the Bookstore Cafe

126 Crosby St., NYC

It don't cost nothing

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Oregonian interview

Jen Sorensen — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:10:47 +0000

The Oregonian did a nice interview with me as part of a series on their local blog partners. What’s the most common misperception about me? Why am I leaving Portland? How do I summarize myself in a single word? Those exciting answers and more can be found with a click of the mouse!

Establishment Hack

Matt Bors — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:35:23 +0000

Reporter Glenn Fleishman writes about my work and recent good luck over at BoingBoing:

The 28-year-old Bors was thus a bit surprised this year, and occasionally nonplussed, when he won the Herblock Prize for “excellence in editorial cartooning,” was a finalist (with Oregonian newspaper staffer Jack Ohman) for the Pulitzer Prize, and received a Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award.

Jesus Christ, Matt, when did you fucking sell out?

Read the rest.

Stories

Matt Bors — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:45:34 +0000

In her post on reporting Occupy, Sarah Jaffe says what I’ve been trying to get at with the journalism I like and want to do, but haven’t been able to put together quite as well as her.

If the definition of journalism we casually came up with when I went with Matt Bors to talk to a graduate class at my alma mater holds true—if journalism is “telling other people’s stories”—then movement journalism is more journalism than what wanky analytic pundits at the Washington Post or the New York Times do, because they are telling the story of statistics and numbers and how smart they are, and I am trying to tell the story of people, who work and struggle and fail and succeed and sometimes just come together to dance.

This Week’s Cartoon: “The Bully Rights Movement”

Jen Sorensen — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:20:47 +0000

I was going to make a “bully pulpit” joke in this strip, but then I did a search and realized everyone on the internet had already made it. A cartoonist’s life is fraught with peril.

Mitt has done some good in the past, such as the health care plan he now distances himself from. But more and more, it seems like he’s a human hurricane leaving a trail of unemployed people, bowel-voiding dogs and traumatized gay teens in his wake.

Life Imitates “Art”

Cronjob — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:12:52 +0000

full comic here

A couple months ago, I included this panel in a cartoon featuring advice for Romney, who was floundering in the polls to human-turdburger Rick Santorum. This caused James Lipton to lose sleep and productivity as he thought about the imaginary job I conscripted him for. (Sorry, Mr. Lipton!) He took the job seriously, and produced this hilarious video and an accompanying article. Check it out.

This is the closest I’ll ever come to interacting with someone involved with the greatest sitcom ever, Arrested Development.

Kickstarter Project Doomed

Ted Rall — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:43:00 +0000

Despite a lot of support—130 people promised $9435—my Kickstarter project is obviously going to be a bust. There are 50 hours to go, and the rate of pledges has simply seized up.

So what went wrong? It’s anybody’s guess. Among some of the conjectures I’ve heard are:

The economy is shitty. Kickstarter is oversaturated. Without being highlighted on the site’s front page, it languished. Certainly there was zero support from the blogosphere, which no doubt considered this idea too radical for them. My fans are tapped out by my auctions, computer fundraiser and previous (Afghanistan) Kickstarter.

Who knows.

This is bittersweet for me. It’s great to know that so many people are able and willing to help support what I do. My readers are the coolest, smartest, sanest people around. So generous, it’s amazing!

But I despair for the future. Political websites and leftie blogs have refused to hire cartoonists or writers, or pay outrageously low rates that are impossible to live on. Print media is firing, not hiring. The only thing left is direct support from the public—and if that doesn’t work, well…

now what?