A few days ago I published an editorial cartoon about how the US government is wasting taxpayer money but wants us to be angry at AIG for doing the same. One of my frequent commenters, Woman in Black, is from Britain and had this to say
“Is it possible to offer us Brits an Anglicised version (Royal Bank of Scotland and Gordon Brown)? We are a simple race, and need things spelled out to us.”
Then she said no one knows what Gordon Brown looks like. Across the pond their Uncle Sam is known as John Bull. so for you WIB…I present (I did it down and dirty and quick so not quite up to my crap standards.):
I decided to check out Photofunia. I nabbed the blog image of a couple of frequent commenters here to show you what it could do. All you need to do is choose one of your images and where it should go.
First is our friend Brit from Blunt Delivery. This photo proves there are weirdos on the net who will do anything when they find your picture online. Actually the photo from a blogger named Chris Pirillo was one of the options on the site.
Ram’s Food Here blog is a fictionalized humorous account of a convenience store owner. He has been coming up with Ram Branded products lately so I figure it is only time before he starts making his own money.
I am sure there are plenty of cartoonists doing editorial cartoons this week on AIG.
Barack Obama went after AIG looking for them to not pay the retention bonuses that someone sneakily made a legal obligation. Unfortunately he was too late as the money had already been paid out.
A few weeks ago I highlighted the work of George Ford and showcased the guest cartoon I did for his cartoon strip Addanac City. Instead of his strip style, I used my typical editorial cartoon style.
George has returned the favor by creating an editorial cartoon for me in his style and using his main character Hank. I love it. I can just see Madoff trying to reclaim his fortune by acting like one of those “royal monarchs” that everyone gets spammed with.
George is letting me post it here first before he posts it on his site so go check out his stuff as he is now updating his cartoons SEVEN days a week. I give him a month before he burns out. (j/k George).
Also be sure to check out George’s Addanac City blog as it has different stuff than the main site (one day he will figure out how to meld the two or I’ll figure it out and be able to tell him but he is more web literate than I so I doubt it)
Click on the picture to get it bigger or you can probably see it bigger on the AC site.
Drew this editorial cartoon back in 2006 and titled it hypocrites. Can’t remember what spurred me in the news to do this. But I do remember my conservative friends commenting on it and arguing that the person on death row had a choice based on his actions.
So I saw Watchmen last night and overall I enjoyed it but it left too many unanswered questions for me as a newbie. As I mentioned in my previous post and editorial cartoon, I never read the original comic so I came into it fresh.
In no particular order here are my thoughts:
1. I was not as distracted by the blue junk as others seemed to make it out to be. But I guess there is one advantage to being made of so much atomic heat, he never does have to worry about shrinkage.
2. The first group, the Minutemen were all ex cops. The second group, who knows where they came from with few exceptions. My question is that Dr Manhatten is the only one with true super hero powers. So how does Roscharch jump 10 feet effortlessly and how do the others kick butt so well. Sure you can say Batman didn’t have superpowers either and he could kick butt, but a little backstory would help.
3. Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach was great. Then he removed his mask to reveal himself as Walter Kovacs.
Jackie Earle Haley as Walter Kovacs – Rorschach unmasked (image from dvd-forum.at)
I obviously wasn’t the only one to think the part could have easily have been played by Danny Bonaduce. (in looks and personality) Come on, this could have been Danny’s big comeback.
4. The movie went to great efforts to show the origins of Dr. Manhatten but left me wondering about the others. How/Why? Sure you can say the first X-men movie only gave a background on Magneto but there was an overriding element that they all were misfits who had different powers. I couldn’t feel for the characters as much in Watchmen. Because there was no backstory on how Comedian came the be the asshole he was, it was hard to feel anything when he broke down in tears or even a feel good that he died.
So those are my two cents. Anyone with the answers, I would be happy to hear them.
Two blogs that I tend to check out on a regular basis both had reviews of the new move “Watchmen”.
Now I haven’t seen the movie yet (nor did I read the comic that inspired it) but Tom Richmonds Cartoon Blog and Tannerleah’s Stop Annoying Me Blog, both this week gave much press to the fact that the character Dr Manhatten is nude in much of it and that he has blue junk. I thought this odd until I googled more reviews and found this being talked about more than other parts of the movie. (See here, here and here for just a few other reviews)
I’ll be seeing it sometime this week and will give a full review. I just hope now I can keep from actually looking for the penis. Maybe when it comes out on video it can become a popular drinking game like “Hi Bob” (bonus if you know what this is referring to).
For those of you who saw my post on the Daily Elephant a few weeks back, Brit decided to be a little more professional and get off the free wordpress site. I guess dailyelephant.com was taken up by a GOP backer so she had to go with her new site called www.bluntdelivery.com. It is NOT as I questioned, a mail order drug paraphanalia company; rather, just Brits humorous ongoing tirades about life.
It’s that time of year that people in Cincinnati start throwing their hat in the ring to run for city council, so I thought given the tough economic times out there this editorial cartoon was fitting.
