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Since this cartoon ran. Widely excoriated in the right-wing blogosphere as anti-military, ludicrously enough.
Seems like a very long time ago.
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A limited number of signed copies of The Very Silly Mayor are available at the publisher’s website. Or you can pick up a copy of the regular edition. Either way, if you have children, or know of any human beings who do, I do encourage you to pick up a copy. [...]
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In what seems like another lifetime, I once went around having meetings in various conference rooms, pitching an idea for a television show based on the strip. The conceptual problem was how to create a world that could be both timely and timeless — the solution was that the show was set ...
White House
Dick Cheney
Last night Hannity had to apologize after Jon Stewart caught him splicing together video from different teabag rallies to make the crowds at the recent one seem larger than they were — he called the mistake “inadvertent.” Fox seems to have a recurring problem with these little ...
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Fox News
Sean Hannity
Jon Stewart
As indicated in the announcements box above, I’ve finally figured out (with the help of kind reader Todd T.) how to set up a browser-based version of the cartoon optimized for mobile devices. I’m keeping it very simple — it’ll just be the most recent cartoon each week, ...
Congress
Todd Tiahrt
Arthur Small
I’m starting to gather material for my annual Year in Review cartoons, and as always, your suggestions for memorable, and memorably stupid, highlights of the year are eagerly solicited. (Last year’s installments are here and here, to give you a sense of the sort of thing I’m ...
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You can see a larger version here (watermarks not on actual posters, of course).
No promises, but I’ll probably be selling a signed and numbered edition of these sometime early next year, around February or so. They’ll be available as complete sets of four only, and I haven’t ...
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Also via Bors: MAD Magazine artist Tom Richmond
has been working on an iPhone app with movie
director/entrepreneur Ray Griggs that allows users to search a database for contact information of every congressman. Tom did 540 caricatures – one for every ...
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The pearl-clutching sensibilities of Apple
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Via Bors:
KURTZ: Did one of the founders — did I get this right — of Google ask you why you didn’t just publish your book online?
AULETTA: Yes. In my second interview with co-founder Sergey Brin, he came in on his rollerblades and he threw his knapsack down on the table and ...
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A startling announcement from the prestigious Institute for the Advancement of Conservative Science.
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Long time since I’ve posted here, but I hope this is worth the wait: I’m just about to depart for Peru and Bolivia, a trip marking the first leg of my work on a new book about microfinance for Bloomsbury.
Since the start of 2009, I’ve made nearly 1000 small business loans in ...
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Peru
Bolivia
India
I just noticed that The Very Silly Mayor is #41 in the Amazon category of Books > Children’s Books > Animals > Birds > Fiction.
The only thing standing between me and #1 is those damn Pigeon books, I’ll bet.
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– An article on The Very Silly Mayor, from the Wilmington NC Encore, here. (The Mayor, of course, can be ordered here — and now that we’re past Halloween, isn’t it time to start thinking about the holiday gift-giving season? You bet it is!)
– I talk cartooning with ...
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Joe Lieberman, the most important politician in all of human history. (Link leads to legible version of cartoon. My friends at Salon still seem to have a few bugs in their redesign.)
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Joe Lieberman
Also from Halloween at the Spectrum. Sorry to say I didn’t see her myself — somebody sent me this pic. I have no idea how she got the half-brain effect. And that’s not just some generic anatomy shirt she’s wearing — that’s based quite specifically on my ...
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Deal opium and don’t do what the U.S. government tells you to do? Instantaneous death from above!
The Obama Administration has also widened the scope of authorized drone attacks in Afghanistan. An August report by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee disclosed that the Joint Integrated ...
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In response to a number of questions, yes I did a series of four posters for the Philly shows this week which will form one large scene when placed next to each other (though with gaps left in the images between each poster so they don’t have to be jammed right up against each other [...]
