Editorial Cartoon: United Nations Declares Broadband Basic Human Right

Today’s editorial cartoon was inspired by our friends at the United Nations who last week declared that Broadband internet access is now included in the list of Basic Human Rights. Yes right up there with food, shelter, clean water and healthcare is the right to spank your monkey watching full speed downloads of porn videos. OK maybe you have more lofty goals like coordinating protests ala the Arab Spring over the web.

But seriously, Broadband?? My in-laws still use dial up and are just fine.  Agree or disagree?  Any other “basic” rights you would add to the U.N. list?

Nominate Me (or our friends) for Best Webcomic

The Washington Post is having a contest for the Best Webcomics for 2011.  Feel free to nominate me over and over (or just once) by commenting at the link or even easier, sending an email to comicriffs@washpost.com

She has my Vote!!

Over the last year, I have found many webcomic comrades via twitter and others blog rolls.  It is rare though that I find someone else who does editorial cartoons and blogs as well.  Alex Raffi is a Nevada illustrator and editorial cartoonist.   Check out his site for some great stuff. 

The post that really caught my attention as of late was this video he posted of his daughter Elli describing the things she would do to fix the world if she were President.

Only 29 more years Elli and you’ll get my vote.

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The Gloomers

Sorry I have been a turd about posting and responding to comments this week.

I have been working some things as part of a new project I am contributing to that launches next week.

It’s call “The Gloomers” and is a new “social network” (I know I know, you can’t keep your facebook, linkedin, and myspace pages up to date as it is) and animated webisodes of a family called the Gloomers.  They are kind of a cross between the Simpsons and the Addams Family.  You can see mini webisodes on YouTube .

Now before you get all excited about how cool my animation is…note I have nothing to do with any part of that.  (including the voice overs)

The site launches on April 15 (TAX DAY in the United States) but I hope to give you a sample of some of the stuff I am working on before then, so please bear with me.

Zits Animated

No your acne is NOT moving.  Daily Cartoonist is reporting that Zits, the cartoon by Jerry Scott and Cincinnati’s own Jim Borgman has been animated as “audio comics”

There is a YouTube page set up that you can see them.  My only problem is with who does the voices.  Jeremy should sound like  a teenage kid living with his parents, not a 40 year old with a mortgage.