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Archive for October, 2006
New Toon: Santorum of the Rings
Santorum actually said eveything in the first panel, so this cartoon pretty much wrote itself.
New Toon: Back to the Dark Ages
I wanted to post this today before this issue gets old. Plus I may have a second cartoon for Thursday.
The only thing preventing us from embryonic stem cell research is fanatical Christians. The only basis for actually opposing this promising science seems to be the concern that a clump of cells is a sacred life form with a soul. These people will no doubt want to share the benefits of the cure once we finally overcome their lunacy.
I’ll post the Seattle Stranger strip tomorrow.
Judgement House
I have a new comic out that is a bit of undercover comic reporting from a Christian Judgment House. These are a new take on haunted houses which basically serve to convert you to Christianity by showing you hell and other scary sinful acts, or in their words, “just present you with some truth”. You can read it online at campusprogress.org and at the Humanist News Network website. You can also catch it in print in the Buffalo Beast, Anchorage Press, Chico Beat, and the Rocky Mountain Chronicle.
I also appear on the Humanist news Network podcast this month to talk about Judgment House for a few minutes.
You should definitely listen to the podcast, not for me, but for their interview with Julia Sweeny (famous for her SNL role as Pat). She has a new one woman show called Letting Go of God, about her journey from Christianity to Buddhism to New Age crap to Atheism. The audio samples on her website are great.
New Toon: Bush Intends To Follow Law!
Rall posted a link to this Keith Olbermann video last week on the death of Habeas Corpus. I’d recommend this one, in which he goes through the Bill of Rights to determine which are left. It’s a funny segment about the whittling away of the Constitution.
New Illustration
Her is a poster I designed for a comedian in New Orleans who is having comic artists do posters for his shows over the next year to help revitalize the comedy scene in New Orleans. You can see a whole bunch of the posters so far on his myspace page, including ones by Pete Bagge, Tony Millionaire, and Colleen Coover.
Serializer.net
Serializer.net is back! Idiot Box will be appearing there on Thursday, same as here. I recommend Tom Hart’s daily, Hutch Owen. Here’s a complete list of the comics:
MONDAY
Jen Sorensen, Slowpoke
Rick Smith and Tania Menesse, Shuck Stripped
Spike, Templar, Arizona
Eric Millikin, Fetus-X
Tom Hart, Hutch Owen
Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics
TUESDAY
Metaphrog Louis: Lying to Clive
Jenny Gonzalez, Too Negative
Casey Sorrow, Feral Calf
Phil McAndrew, Bean and/or Hug the Cactus
Tom Hart, Hutch Owen
Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics
WEDNESDAY
Renée French, micrographica
Sam Henderson, The Magic Whistle
Spike and Ainsley Seago, Blikada
Sean Bieri , Jape
Jonathan Larabie, The Minibar Bill
Tom Hart, Hutch Owen
Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics
THURSDAY
Matt Bors, Idiot Box
Matt Feazell, Amazing Cynical Man!
Jason Turner, True Loves
Tom Hart, Hutch Owen
Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics
FRIDAY
Patrick Farley, Apocamon: The Final Judgement
Joey Comeau and Emily Horne, A Softer World
Merlin Goodbrey & Douglas Noble, The Rule of Death
Spike, Templar, Arizona
Tom Hart, Hutch Owen
Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics
NOTE THAT:
Joda Thayer, Few and Far Between, will start daily around the week of Nov. 6
Nick Bertozzi will be joining us in a couple months after he finishes a text book illustration project where the deadline got bumped up.
Left Behind
I have a full page comic in this week’s Boston Phoenix about the new video game Left Behind: Eternal Forces. The comic can be found here. The website for the game here.
New Toon: The Frontiers Of Science
Finally something not political! I realized just how long it’s been since I did something independent of the news cycle lately…and who doesn’t want to make fun of the New Age movement and Alternative Medicine? Well, maybe you, I don’t know. Most people believe in at least one kooky idea. It’s hard these days to find someone who is truly skeptical and acknowledges empiricism as the only process of determining truth. I’ll be making an attempt over the next few months to do more non-political strips as I have quite a few written that I like.
Judging from my traffic increase in the last year, at least half of you reading this have not even seen the strips in my first book A Pamphlet For Torture Enthusiasts. You should consider buying one. Now that I expended even more of my copies at SPX the supplies are getting low for both of my collections, especially the first one. After they are gone I doubt I’ll make more. The contents of both books are not archived on the site so if you dig the strip, get one!
Serializer is back!
Serializer.net, a popular site for webcomics, will be relaunching October 22nd with a giant cast of great material. Some of the comics are only available through subscription and won’t appear anywhere else on the web. Idiot Box will be included as a free strip along with fellow CWA cartoon Slowpoke (check out her latest by the way). Here’s a partial list of the lineup:
Nick Bertozzi, As Yet Untitled Experimental Comics, then Drop Ceiling
Matt Bors, Idiot Box
Patrick Farley, Apocamon: The Final Judgement
Matt Feazell, Amazing Cynical Man!
Renée French, micrographica
Jenny Gonzalez, Too Negative
Merlin Goodbrey & Douglas Noble, The Rule of Death
Tom Hart, Hutch Owen
Sam Henderson, The Magic Whistle
Jonathan Larabie, The Minibar Bill
Phil McAndrew, Bean and/or Hug the Cactus
Metaphrog Louis – Lying to Clive
Eric Millikin, Fetus-X
Jen Sorensen, Slowpoke
Casey Sorrow, Feral Calf
Joda Thayer, Few and Far Between
Jason Turner, True Loves
Weekly Woof
The Weekly Woof, a kids comic I do for BlackDog.net, is Halloween themed this month. If you don’t check it out, you’ll never know the answer to “what kind of wolf doesn’t know where he’s going?”
Amtrak
I rode the Amtrak back from DC Sunday evening in what was supposed to be a 9 hour ride to Alliance, Ohio. But when a 60 year old drunken hillbilly stole a tractor and left it on the tracks for us to plow into at full speed, it delayed the trip a bit. I was a bit pissed off so I found a 60 year old drunken hillbilly passenger and made him share his whisky with me. 60 year old drunken hillbillies. I love ‘em.
I’ve been busy ever since I got back from SPX early Monday morning busting my hump to get some comics done. I’ll be posting a cool new one-pager later this week. Some new products and Holiday deals on existing products are coming in the next month starting with my Johnny Cash shirts, which should be available to purchase by Monday.
