War Is Boring

Last Friday I finished War Is Boring, my first graphic novel, which is written by David Axe. I'm extremely satisfied with the result and hope you will check it out when it's released on August 3rd. You can Pre-order now on Amazon and I'll be flogging the hell out of it closer to the release date.

Here is a page from the sixth chapter, which takes place in Somalia. There's more information on the book here and pages from previous chapters here, here, here, here and here.

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A Headline That Speaks Volumes

Today's New York Times: "In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to G.O.P."

Glenn Greenwald has some good writing on it today.

Again with the cold cartoons?

Despite the snowstorm, Virginians appear to be getting good cell phone reception. I know because JR Rose phoned-in this turd.

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John R. Rose Byrd Newspapers of Virginia Feb 5, 2010 EditorialCartoonists.com

Adding: Jen Sorensen rebuts this madness in her latest.

President Noodle Cup

I'm having fun with the corporate personhood topic. While this comic may appear to take the idea to the most absurd heights, I fully expect to live under the thumb of a cute corporate mascot by life's end.

The inspiration for Mr. Noodle Cup comes from a real-life event: The "Kraft Cheddar Explosion" of the Texas Stadium, former home of the Dallas Cowboys and future home of exploding cheddar cheese awesomeness. Apparently we've reached the point in America's decline where an abandoned structure can't be taken down without a junk food sponsor.

I'm not sure why they are demolishing the Texas Stadium, but I think it is for being the last stadium in the 21st century not named after a corporation. Kraft Cheddar Explode that bitch!

Wednesday: The Squirrel Agenda

Trains Are Bad.

So...Obama is spending money on trains that carry people from place to place instead of a space program to achieve a symbolic victory over the Soviet Union? I support that.

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Rob Smith, Jr. The Glenn Beck Program Feb 5, 2010 EditorialCartoonists.com

Overdosing on nothing

I'm just seeing this now, but I love it:

AT 10.23 am on 30 January, more than 300 activists in the UK, Canada, Australia and the US will take part in a mass homeopathic "overdose". Sceptics will publicly swallow an entire bottle of homeopathic pills to demonstrate to the public that homeopathic remedies, the product of a scientifically unfounded 18th-century ritual, are simply sugar pills.

Remarkably, the placebo effect didn't kill anyone.

The Hills Have Ayes

Democrats. Goddamn Democrats.

Gay Merger

Marriage is simply a new legal status for people interested in entering a monogamous misery pact with one another. The only reason gay people can't do it is the fact that many folks find two wieners touching to be icky. Maybe gays should incorporate. The Supreme Court would give them more rights. (Alito mouths "Not true.")

Wednesday: Running For The Hills!

Meet The Press...But Not The Cartoonist, Part 2

Once again on Meet The Press, David Gregory shows a cartoon without citing the creator:

Well, David Brooks, the final word at the end of the week, it was crystallized, I think, by The New Yorker cartoon which, I can tell you on good authority, the president finds quite amusing. Here it is, these various panes [panels?] describing how the president used to be able to walk on water, and that final page [panel?] he actually shows he's a mere mortal, he's lost his magic power, he's into the drink. Where are we?

Could Barry Blitt at least be credited by Gregory for the illustration? Perhaps not the idea, since editorial cartoonists ran that cliche into the ground over a year before The New Yorker thought it cover-worthy, but the "various panes" were drawn by someone.

He looks so peaceful

I always let the silence of the fetus graveyard do my pro-choice pro-abortion talking for me.

What He Said

Brian McFadden has a good comic on corporate personhood and links to some other good ones while lamenting Kevin Moore's decision to stop editorial cartooning. That's the exact blog post I was going to write today, so instead I've composed a blog post telling you about it and linking to his post.

Good 'Ol Asay

I'm loving that second panel.

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Chuck Asay Creators Syndicate Inc. Jan 29, 2010 EditorialCartoonists.com