Kill Us To Save Us

Um...wow.

(via Tom Tomorrow)

MailBag

Maria does not like my comic about PETA's dead fly outrage:

You know, before you go passing undue judgment towards a rather large organization, you should probably read what was actually said. I don't really care if the strip wasn't supposed to be offensive, I'm tired of people portraying Peta members as whiny pussies. I may be sensitive towards animals, but that doesn't mean any jackass with a tired ass joke and an internet outlet can generalize me and not get a mouthful. Here is Peta's actual statement. Fact check next time? =]

I admire Maria standing up for herself and I have to own up here: I completely distorted PETA's response. They did not refer to the fly as "Morty Druckler." I made that name up along with all of his background information. I'm sorry if anyone was misled.

I think we all have a thing or two to learn about human/fly relations. We should start by following the advice of Peta blog commenter "Alyse":

I luv Obama. U can't always be conscious about everything all the time. He had a lapse in judgement. I myself ask flies to leave me alone. If 1 lands on me I ask it "Hey can u find another place to perch Mr. or Ms. Fly?"but I'm a lovey dovey15 yr old.He was in the middle of an ineterview. It must be hard to go from "Mr.Prez mode" to "I luv you fly mode"

Let's all try to spend more time in "I luv you fly mode".

July 4th

Off To Seattle

Tomorrow I leave for Seattle to attend the AAEC convention. I'll be moderating a panel on alt-weekly cartoons, participating in a panel on the future of syndication and drinking copious amounts of alcohol with my ink-slinging colleagues as we talk about the future of our dying profession. Gathering with cartoonists that are better than me is always inspiring. But given the moribund state of the industry, it has the potential to be downright depressing. It'll be a trick to stay positive while speaking frankly about the State Of Things on my panels. Nevertheless, I look forward to getting out of my cartoon laboratory for a few days to interact with other humans.

In my spare time I'll try to blog any good news or discussion that comes out of the panels.

If you are in the area, be sure come to the Cartoonapalooza event with Mike Peters, Ted Rall, David Horsey, Signe Wilkinson, Mark Fiore, myself and others.

The Quad Obit Bandwagon

I was ahead of the curve.

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MStreeter Savannah Morning News Jun 30, 2009 EditorialCartoonists.com

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David Donar Donklephant.com Jun 30, 2009 EditorialCartoonists.com

Phoning It In

Here's my insights into the week's news events. Hope no other cartoonists beat me to it.

I should add that this is historic. I don't think anyone in history has ever done a Quadruple Obit cartoon before.

Comments

I've opened comments for everyone, including anonymous users, but I will approve them before they go up to avoid spam and the odd crazy person. We'll see how it works.

Minutemen

We're having a Founding Fathers Fest here this week. Both cartoons ended up being patriot themed for some reason.

Democrats have a habit of ceding things to the other side before they even sit down to discuss them. I'm glad they weren't around during the Revolution--they would have wanted to take it off the table.

Very Inconsistent

Jesse Jackson, who once said Obama wasn't black enough and should have his nuts cut off, flew in to LA today to hang out at the mansion of a pedophile with bleached skin.

Bad, Dangerous, Smooth Criminal and other Michael Jackson references that fit

With the King of Pop's frightening visage blaring from every cable station, website and newspaper in the land, what better time for news to break that Obama is preparing to assert radical executive powers:

The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, is drafting an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations.

Might as well post this...

The only time I touched on MJ in a cartoon.

New Illos

A little punk ass thieved a laptop out of the back of a parked ambulance.

And a white trash couple was cruising around the OC in whatever kind of car that is, blighting their upscale roads with cigarette butts.