There is a new site out there called Comic Strip Improv. Essentially each week they put up a topic and ask people (no matter their drawing ability) to do a cartoon based on the topic.
This weeks topic was Scary Girlfriend. Here is my entry but go and check out all of them and vote starting tomorrow. There are some really good ones.
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On this side of the pond, the Supreme Court of the United States is down a judge. When that happens, the President nominates a person to become the new Justice and Congress must approve the nominee. Of course depending on who is in power, the other side will never like the person (even if they do, they have to pound their fist so their constiuents will be proud).
So President Obama has nominated Sonia Sotomayor and charges from the far right are already coming out that she is a racist because of a speech she gave and her part in a ruling. Now I personally don’t care where you come down on whether or not she is or not. But really? This is the best strategy of opposing her??
I hate the political pundits and talking heads on both sides. Used to watch ’em but now I can’t stomach it. But Rachel Maddow from MSNBC had an interesting point. (hat tip to Chris Johnson for the video of it I saw) She said,
The question is why do this? And that’s a calculation about political capital. If you think you spend political capital by attacking the judicial nominee, it doesn’t seem like much use to waste that capital on someone who everybody thinks is going to get confirmed anyway. If on the other hand you think that you build up your political capital…you increase your political power by attacking a nominee then it makes sense to come after a Sonia Sotomayor with both political barrels. And, then it makes sense to ask what kind of Republican party and what kind of Conservative Movement is this fight building?
Personally I think the Conservatives are focusing on the wrong thing. Their best strategy is summed up in my latest editorial cartoon. They should be telling Liberals that they are excited about the nominee and especially the fact that she is Roman Catholic in hopes that she will rule to overturn Roe vs Wade (ie abortion laws). Then watch the far left stumble over themselves to make sure to find out where she stands on abortion.
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It seems even more people are enamored with Susan Boyle in the States than in Britain where she is competing in Britains Got Talent. Got to thinking what could stop her. Could it be people’s natural instinct to root for the underdog. Now that she is the favorite, does that put her in a spot?
Now Bill at Comics I Don’t Understand might get on me for such an old reference, but on this side of the pond anyone over 20 probably knows about Nancy Kerrigan taking a hit in the knee from Tonya Harding’s then husband Jeff Gillooly and his friends. Is the reference too old?
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Some of you early readers might remember my post on HOW TO TURN YOURSELF INTO A CARTOON CHARACTER
Well it looks like the producers of the new Terminator movie want you to be able to Terminate Yourself. No not kill yourself, but rather turn your photo into looking like your human skin is melting off to reveal your cyborg self.
Check it out at TERMINATEYOURSELF.COM
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I won dinner at Bootsy Collins restaurant because I called this one. I usually only watch the audition shows of American Idol but with the advent of the DVR, I can watch an entire episode in about 10 minutes by bypassing all the boring stuff. So it came down to the final three of Adam Lambert, Kris Allen and Danny Gockey.
Kris and Danny had too similar taste in music so I knew that whichever of them got booted, the other would pick up the majority of their votes. And of course, as usual, I was right.
While I loved Adam’s singing of Mad World, can you all get off his jock about the arrangement. He didn’t do it. He took Michael Andrew’s arrangement from the Donnie Darko soundtrack.
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So I am now one of the cool kids. I have been jealous of my friends who host their own blogs that they could have comment threading (sometimes known as Intense Debate) whereby you can respond to individual posts versus at the end.
I just assumed WordPress.com blogs didn’t have that option. Of course I was wrong thanks to a quick review of the support forum and info provided by the member thesacredpath who pointed me to this blog entry from wordpress.
From their post:
Go to Settings > Discussion in your dashboard, and you’ll discover three new options in the “Other comments settings” section:
- “Enable comments [x] levels deep”
- “Break comments into pages with [x] comments per page and the [first or last] page displayed by default”
- “Comments should be displayed with the [newer or older] comments at the top of each page”
With the threaded comments option, you can connect and interact with your readers while easily keeping track of who’s saying what to whom. You control the conversation by setting the number of levels allowed in your comment threads, from 1 to 10. (Ten levels deep means nine replies under each comment — that’s a lot!)
Hopefully in the next day or so, I’ll have another cool announcement that makes your visits easier and more pleasant…in the meantime back to work.
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I am nothing if I don’t listen to my fan base. The other day I posted a cartoon about the Mannequin controversy at KT’s Barbecue in Cincinnati. Well according to George, Myra, and Ram, my choice of being modest and not drawing nipples would not go unnoticed. (Update: Add Robert J to the list of original requesters.)
And George thought it would have been funny if some kid erased the “M” off “Mass” to make it say “Ass”. I could only think of one kid who could be responsible. George Ford’s own Hank Addanac at AddanacCity.
So for all of you I give you the revamped toon.
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Its seems in the small Town of Reading, Ohio (near Cincinnati), Kenny Tessel was having trouble drawing in patrons to his barbecue restaurant (KT’s Barbecue). So he bought a busty mannequin online, named her Bar-Be (Q being her last name), put her in a baseball hat and bikini top and stuck her on the sidewalk in front of his place with a sign.
All of the sudden people were coming in for tasty ribs that hadn’t stopped before. In fact according to Kenny business was up 30%. More on the story here and here. Of course his business went up even more once a couple residents complained and the story has taken on national attention.
So I thought maybe there are other businesses that could use a jolt of new customers using this tactic and came up with my latest editorial cartoon.
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Don’t have a new one myself but some of my favorite “undiscovered” cartoonists have new toons up that you should check out.
Addanac City – A comic strip about Hank Addanac (part Dennis the Menace, part Bart Simpson, part Michael Meyers).
Calamities of Nature – when animals talk, people listen. (even though he was on the front page of Digg yesterday, I’ll still put him in here)
Life with Kreg – if Jeff Spicoli were a teenager today.
Spud Comics – The Far Side without the Cows
The Frustrated Cartoonist – Mad Magazine contibutor. Part webcomic, part diary.
And while not a cartoonist herself, The Daily Uplift, has an hilarious animated commercial for Bontrust Bank. You have to wait for it though.
Anyone else a cartoonist that people should check out. Put it in the comments section.
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It seems like Wrestling and Baseball have the biggest issues with performance enhancing drugs. Does it go on as much in other sports and if so, why is it downplayed in the press?
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