Cartoonists With Attitude

Seattle, 4th, hello kitty

Shannon Wheeler — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:20:56 +0000

If I were to switch from french press to a drip coffee I think I'd have to get a Hello Kitty coffee maker.

I stumbled on that abomination because it's reviewed on a blog that talks about an on old book of mine. One of the auto-google functions shot me the heads-up. Once, a long time ago, I bought a Hello Kitty vibrator as a gift. I would like a Hello Kitty coffee maker.

My night in Seattle was a blast. A bunch of us played drunken scrabble and drunkener Rock Band.

Even with a hangover I loved the Sci-Fi museum. I was bugged at all the 'fan built' stuff. Seems like they coulda/shoulda gotten original Storm Trooper/R2D2 outfits.

Seeing the original Star Trek uniforms gave me a thrill. As did seeing one of Neil Stephenson's hand written books which was inexplicably placed in front of E.T. You aren't supposed to take pictures inside the museum hence my blurry sneaky from-the-waist snapshot. The gift shop was on par with a dealer table at a third rate sci-fi show. I'm their target audience and I didn't want to buy anything. I thought they'd at least have a good selection of post cards. They had nothing. I should have snuck more pictures of my own.

I liked the sculpture garden.

Seattle feels more metropolitan than Portland though I'm told that Portland has taken the lead in hipness.

I did go to a great party in Portland on the 4th where we set off illegal fireworks and participated in underage drinking.

I need to get on more PR for my book. It's starting to hit stores.

San Diego Comic Con is coming up soon. In addition to books I'm going to try selling a lot of original art.

The Smith Equation

Matt Bors — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:08:00 +0000

This is running Sunday in The Oregonian. Gordon Smith is up for reelection in the Senate and by watching his campaign ads you'd think he was a Democrat. He claims to be "one of the first" to stand up to Bush on the War (the one in Iraq) and claims Barack Obama likes him bunches. Pretty soon he'll be trying to literally spoon feed voters bullshit.

Ted Rall — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:01:00 +0000

Cartoon for July 5

Eventually, the economist said, we'll all be dead. In Iraq, sooner rather than later.

What the hell happened to me?

Kevin Moore — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:13:51 +0000

Slow blogging this week, obviously. And no damn toons, nuther.

I got back from the ALA Conference in Anaheim on Tuesday and have been pretty busy since then catching up with my normal life.

Then - WHAM! - it’s the 4th of July. Drop everything! Eat greasy food! Dodge fireworks! Ride a big blue train with a face on it! Get a sunburn! Roll the American flag into a giant wad and shove it up your ass! Love your country or die, commie terrorist blasphemer! Drink too much beer! Imagine Jesus all buff and oily, massaging your toes! Just cuz! Don’t question anything! Take off your shoes before boarding a plane! Wear mouse ears with pride! Go to the mall! There’s a sale! Fuck the planet!

All shall resume as normal next week. There will be cartoons. And thoughts on what I done learned from librarians more experienced than I.

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Buh-bye!

Stephanie McMillan — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:50:44 +0000

After the obit panel I moderated at the AAEC convention, I guess I have obit cartoons on my mind. Anyway, I could not help myself -- as soon as I thought of this I had to draw it. And isn't it swell how the whole country is setting off fireworks tonight in celebration of him being reunited with his Lord?

Obit Watch

Matt Bors — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:39:00 +0000

Two bozos just died: Bozo the clown and the despicable racist Jesse Helms. We can expect some obit cartoons for both. (including using the line about "two bozos," I'm sure.)

John Kovalic has made a do-it-yourself obit for Bozo and Helms: "Grab it, open photoshop, and beat many a salaried editorial cartoonist to the punch!" Check the comments for versions his readers have posted.

Here's mine:

Edit: Looking through the thread, there's some funny ones. Could it be that in 24 hours some people responding to a LiveJournal post already created some cartoons that are far better than those we'll see from professionals who seem to ape the first one out of the gate after every major death?

Yes. Yes it is.

Ted Rall — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:33:00 +0000

Jesse Helms, Rest in Pieces

Wow, an entire AP obituary and not one word about his racist or gay-bashing legacy. The human turd's sycophants even went as far as to compare him to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both of whom also died on the Fourth of July. They even called him a patriot!

Helms was no patriot. He hated everyone who wasn't like him--white, male, straight, privileged. Since that only includes a tiny percent of the American population--he hated most Americans. Therefore, he hated America.

Senator great baseball man

August J. Pollak — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:14:54 +0000

This made my day and is everything great about America.

Bunning: "Regular order!"
Byrd: "Who said that?"

Bunning: "I did."

Byrd: "Who are you?"

Bunning: "I'm a senator."

Byrd: "You're a great baseball man."

Bunning: "I'm a senator; I have the same rights as you."

Byrd: "Yeah, man, you're a senator." [Ends by laughing hysterically at Bunning.]

Bunnista Gets Evicted — new comic 7/4

Stephanie McMillan — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:11:19 +0000

First, a quote I read every Fourth of July:

"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival."

-- Frederick Douglass, 1952

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In the Minimum Security comic from 7/4, Independence Day just means independence from having a home. Click on the fragment below for the full cartoon at comics.com:

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Happy 4th! Now Fuck You; I’m Eating BBQ!

Brian McFadden — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:27:42 +0000

The AV Club has a hilarious round-up of over-the-top-patriotic-songs. Here’s a brief collection of songs I can enjoy over the holiday without a shred of embarrassment.

Violent Femmes - American Music

Naked Trucker and T Bones - American Dream

Woody Guthrie - This Land

Anti-Flag - One Trillion Dollars

Allen Ginsberg w/ Tom Waits - America

Bruce McCulloch - That’s America

There are many more, but I’ve got to make some burgers as the founding fathers intended.