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?

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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.

So Mitt Romney is a bigger jerk face than you thought just last week. Trying to break through his image as wooden technocrat, his wife and campaign started reminiscing about his wild, fun, and prank-filled youth. Turns out “pranks” means pretty jerky behavior–assault in the one case–and he ends up looking like a mean-spirited, entitled rich kid who thinks others are beneath him. Fast forward to “I like being able to fire people.”

I don’t like to forever hold people accountable for things they did in high school. Bullies can be forgiven… if they seek it. Romney’s reaction–his lie–about not recalling the incident was a missed opportunity to just be a human being owning up to something they did wrong. Instead he’s a jerk face.

Note that the Charles Atlas photo is taken directly from the famous ad and no Photoshop doctoring has been done. That’s not Mitt’s head on there!

As a bonus, here’s a sketch I did that was going to be a parody of right-wing cartoons but then I switched ideas at the last minute.

I saw it in the Dulles airport last week with a white piece of paper covering the offending feeding. Immediately next to it sat the latest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, a woman’s glistening rack suspended by two small triangles of fabric, just as evolution purposed them. We sure are weird about lady parts.

Men can’t process the cover properly. Boobs belong to them. Women feel put on the defensive for not being, as the cover charges, “mom enough.” And parents with Opinions About How To Raise Children–a defensive bunch–are set off. I love it. The mom on the cover might fit into that last group, by the way. The story isn’t even about breast-feeding, it’s about attachment parenting, but who cares? It’s about what we say it’s about and it’s about breast-feeding and whether this kid should be on a magazine cover doing that and whether it’s OK to see boobs.

It’s OK to see boobs.

Attachment parents are a little much for me. So are these damn Tiger Moms doling out motivational insults. But so are detachment parents, which is sort of the default for a lot kids raised by parents who are passing down their own parent’s problems. Point being, parents can be the worst ever. They dictate our lives from birth and since they found Facebook there’s no respite from their neediness. We are their boobs. Don’t comment on this post, mom. Get stuck with an attachment hippie parent and you could be drinking healthy breast milk for a few years. Which isn’t so bad, really. (Just make sure they get you vaccinated.)

The World Health Organization recommends two years for breast feeding, the first six months of it exclusive, meaning no water. The overwhelming majority of American moms choose not to do this. It’s draining (ha!) and most women (and their partners) want their boobs back from little people as soon as they can. So it’s not as if our cultural norm for breast-feeding is anywhere close to what it probably should be.

I should mention here that I don’t have kids. Or boobs. Carry on with your parenting. Do with your boobs as you will. We’re just talking.

But I do know women who have nursed children for years and have no problem lifting out a tit in public (eyes up, Matt!) and while I can’t imagine doing that myself, it’s not really that weird. People–mostly men–have trouble separating mammalian protuberances from their intended purpose of feeding their children. Though you could argue they also serve the purpose of attracting mates. (Dual purpose! Woo!) But as weird as it can seem, I’ve never heard of a case where a kid was permanently messed up from breast-feeding for a few years.

People are wondering if it’s wise for this boy to show up on the cover of a national magazine like this, essentially forced by his hippy-dippy mom, who will be a lithe 37 or so by the time his high school chums are making jokes about wanting a sip. It was my first thought too. But then I realized that whole “What About The Children?!” thing is what overbearing parents who annoy me do. I’m no Mitt Romney when it comes to bullying, but I think this kid will live. If anyone deserves blame it’s TIME for being so sensational and pitting parents against each other. Maybe any teasing he gets will cause him to reflect on this episode and inspire him to become a discerning, non-douchey dad. Or maybe it will motivate him to develop the best baby formula ever, so no kid has to go through this again.

It’ll be better than boob juice. Something for the haters to suck on.

Garry Trudeau gave the night’s lecture, which is available online as well. Michal Cavna of the Post interviewed me before the reception, the results of which are up on his blog.

I also wanted to do something here I neglected in the speech – give a shout out to my colleague Jen Sorensen, who was the finalist. So shout out to Jen!

So beautiful.

Via Boingboing

Today we publish the fourth installment of Army Of God by David Axe and Tim Hamilton. This chapter examines the history of the infamous leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, who has long evaded capture. Over the last year, Kony has virtually become a household name and efforts to arrest him have been ramping up. Just yesterday, the Associated Press reported that Ugandan forces had captured one of his top commanders.

If you aren’t caught up on Army Of God, check out previous chapters on our project page.

Stephanie McMillan has been awarded the prestigious RFK Journalism Award for editorial cartooning, which is given for work focusing on “human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action.” McMillan is a regular contributor to Cartoon Movement and her RFK entry included both her Code Green editorial cartoons and “The Beginning of the American Fall” piece she did for us in November.

“I’m gratified to have my work recognized specifically as a contribution to social justice,” McMillan tells us. “The reasons I draw cartoons are to expose the fundamentally unjust nature of the global capitalist/imperialist system, and to encourage resistance to it. I consider my cartoon work to be complementary to building actual organized resistance. Artists who care about social justice should be involved in the struggle for it, and dedicate their work in its service.”