actually have a few cartoons lined up for this week. stay tuned.
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Solyndra
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Cannonball
or bellyflop. all the other major candidates are floundering because of one or twp liberal ideas they simply will not let go of. even christe has his problems. herman cain is looking better and better.
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Fart Monster
volokh has semi functional links to the story of a turkish cartoonist being tried for renouncing allah. the cartoon wars now enter their fifth year.
http://volokh.com/2011/09/28/turkish-cartoonist-to-be-put-on-trial-for-renouncing-god/
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The end of "Hope"
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Spoiled children of the world, UNITE!
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Fwuffybuns
not much to do around here. but we got beer. and we got chainsaws. spare me the critiques. i know it looks like hell. but not bad for a first effort.
will have a toon up in a day or so.
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too late to drive south
are any of you all good at math? and digging up dull statistics? i'd like to do an analysis of the casualty rtes between soldiers deployed to afghanistan and the various occupy groups. then compare overdoses, assaults and rapes.
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New Formula
Is this it? is this the "Kent State moment" they've been waiting for. Kind of pathetic. But I'm currently watching people compare this to tianammen square.
For the record, given the limited information I think the cop acted inapprpriately. But that in no way ads legitimacy to the commie dullards cause.
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Pepper Spray
The city of Santa Cruz had to bring in hazmat crews to clean up 200 pounds of human feces after the occupiers left. I'd make a Michael Moore joke at this point, but we're stll about three hundred punds of shit short.
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Newter
alan moore has decided to pick a fight wih frank miler over the occupy movement. it is fun watching the fits errupting over the various comic book forums. most seem to be fan boys screaming "fascist" at miller. and other various ad hominem ttack having nothing to do with the issues. i can play that game too.
now i have never met moore, but judging from the picture i suspect he smells. so he has that much in common with the occupy protestors.
he is a one trick hack. he takes characters others have created and gets cheap drama out of turning them into self loathing alcoholics. and after seeing his book “lost girls” i do not think he so be left unsupervised around children.
the protests themselves are now over, with only the feces left to clean up. not even worth discussing.
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Fawkes
does anyone still care about the occupy movement? well here's one last cheap shot.
am watching the primaries. i do sort of have a problem with romney's religion. i don't think he's mormon enough. i don't think a truly devout ldser would have compromised on abortion. there's just something wrong with a guy who'll stand tough on the magic underwear, but toss away a right to life committment just to get elected.
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Woof
if i was delusional enough to think that my opinion carried ay weight, i'd tell you all to vote for gingrich. but still... how can i pass up a joke like this.
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Stupor Tuesday
i suppose romney is the titanic, and gingrich is the hindenberg. and ronpaul would be the roswell ufo. and santorum....? i don't kno. maybe he's the submarine with thscreendoor just below the iceberg.
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movement . . .
webmonster here: You'll notice some things missing and REDACTED on the site now. Do not be alarmed. There's some stuff happening, potentially good - including a possible site redesign.
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Hiatus
am taking a break. other stuff going on. maybe talk about it later.hope to get back to cartooning before the election.
with all the talk of brett kimberlin lately, it's important to remember the role gary trudeau played in promoting his bullshit.
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A perfect black jewel of crazy
This is real. It appeared in the New York Times on on July 2nd 1992. Now this was before the internet. A time when if you wanted to save something you tore it out of the paper and used it as a bookmark. Stumbled on it the other day. For some reason I could not bring it up online. Strange. Will get back to cartooning eventually. Maybe next month.
Batman and the Jewish Question
by Rebecca Roiphe and Daniel Cooper
Batman's new adversary, the Penguin, played by Danny Devito in "Batman Returns" is is not just a deformed man, half human, half arctic-beast. He is a Jew, down to his hooked nose, pale face and lust for herring. No, Mr. Devito is not jewish, but that's just it: Man in penguin costume, Christian in Jew face.
"Batman Returns" is not anti-Semitic. But the director, Tim Burton, repeatedly uses imagery and cultural stereotypes that are rooted in Judeo-Christian culture. Mr. Butron relies on these allusions to give historical depth and mythological resonance to his unreal technological extravaganza. And he depicts the Penguin as one of the oldest cliches: The Jew who is bitter, bent over and out for revenge, The Jew who is unathletic and seemingly unthreatening but who in fact wants to murder every first born child of the gentile community.
The film is not a biblical allegory. It is a fantasy of good versus evil in which good is the undisputed victor. But it draws on a depiction of good and evil in the western world as a conflict between Christian and Jew., between the doctrine of the Old Testament and the teaching of the New.
Even a comic strip rendered large cannot avoid these symbols - they worm their way into fairytales and fantasy, reality and virtual reality. The biblical allusions and historical references woven into the plot of "Batman Returns" betray a hidden conflict between gentile and jew.
The movie opens with shots of distressed parents of a child who is not quite right. The baby is kept in a cage where it ignores to ornate Christmas tree and stalks a kitten through through the wood slats of it's prison. The parents take this child, assort of beastly Tiny Tim, to small bridge in an icy wood.They dump the black wicker carriage into the river, and the camera follows the basket downstream. The Penguin is Moses,Moses in black, the anti - Moses.
For the remainder of the film, Christian and Jewish images are apparent, if somewhat overwhelmed by the gothic sets, gangster costumes and stylized speech. The Penguin's underground den, a cavern of ice and toxic waste, is a modern version of the last circle of Dante's hell. His umbrellas that transform into bayonets, machine guns and helicopters are Moses' magic staff, the flipper hands he holds at his chest are Moses' hands, which in Exodus become "leprous as snow."
As a mayoral candidate,the Penguin claims he will save Gotham from corruption and violence. The Penguin feigns assimilation into society and gains the citizen's trust for a time. But eventually even the ignorant masses understand the false prophet for what he is, a primordial beast who seeks retribution "an eye for an eye." This Old Testament saying is heard in different forms throughout the the movie. It is not the way Jews govern themselves, but it is the way others have perceived Judaism.
The conspiracy against Gotham begins when the Penguin teams up with Bruce Wayne's adversary, the corrupt businessman Max Shreck. This Jewish sounding name is borrowed from the actor who played the first bat-man of the silver screen, the vampire in F.W.Murnau's 1922 film "Nosferatu." What better partner of the Penguin in his fight against Batman than the vampire Jew.
The Penguin blackmails Shreck with an artful presentation of toxic waste, a severed hand and shredded documents: the Penguin-Jew is a bargaining maven. The pact is sealed,and the Penguin and Shreck become brothers in crime, a Moses and Aaron team gone sour. In Tim Burton's fantasy, Aaron is Moses' campaign manager, press agent and image consultant.
Max wants only power, but the Jew who has suffered wants to punish others for the crime that was committed against him.The Penguin pretends to be searching for his parents, seeking reconciliation, but he no longer cares about his own lineage. He seeks greater destruction, a kind of Armageddon instigated by the orphan-Satan-Moses himself.
He spends long hours in the archives compiling lists of the first born sons. Though clearly a reference to the final plague in Exodus,it is also an echo of the accounts of Nazis and anti-Semites throughout history as well as reinforcing the myth that Jews drink the blood of gentile children. The Penguin's evil plan is the enactment of a paranoid notion that Jews' effort to preserve their heritage and culture is a guise for elitist and hostile intentions.
Compounding the Jewish question in "Batman Returns" is the film's music. Mr. Burton's dense kaleidoscope of shiny rings, dark rivers and bird boats, underscored by composer Danny Elfman's use of leitmotifs, altered chords, and chromatic progressions, make indisputable the influence of Richard Wagner. Mr. Burton's horde of penguins are like Wagner's aquatic elves, the Niebelungen, The Penguin-Jew-villian is also Wagner's Alberich from "Das Rheingold" wheezing uncontrollably, scheming from the murky banks and escaping to his underground cavern.
The Penguin sails the sewers in a giant rubber duck, a parody of the "Schwa der Scheide" from Wagner's "Lohengrin." Though Wagner was, of course, an anti-Semite, the music - dark, passionate and mysterious - is not in itself anti-Semitic. But in the context of the movie, with it's Jew monster, Hitler's appropriation of Wagner's operas and the composers own politics re-emerge.
"Batman Returns" takes place at Christmas time. The Christmas tree, the lights and the mistletoe serve a thematic purpose. they represent the Christian ethic which will save Gotham (and New York,Los Angeles and Chicago) from the false ideology of the Penguin.
Denied his own birthright, the Penguin intends to obliterate the Christian birth, and eventually the whole town. His army of mindless follower, a flock of ineffectual birds who cannot fly, is eventually converted to the side of Christian morality. They turn against the leader who has failed to assimilate. In the final scene, Batman articulates the distinctly Christian moral of the film: Merry Christmas and good will toward men... and women."
The Christian ethic, like the faces beneath the heroes' masks, is eventually revealed. Batman and Cat woman put on their costumes on and rip them off. They are both marginal and integrated, freaks and functioning citizens.
But the Penguin's mask is no disguise. It is his face,his deformity, his ethnicity. And Tim Burton has his own mask. His movie is cloaked in extravaganza,fantasy and allusion. Behind the multimillion dollar movie set is old fear and prejudice. Moses becomes Satan, Jew becomes vengeful and Christian faith conquers all. Since the Judeo-Christian tradition provides many of our myths, we should be careful not to let our fiction turn one faith against the other. There is enough of that in real life.
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Back in the saddle
have a few ideas ready. expect some cartoons this week.
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Good Riddance
Knock knock
Who's There?
Interrupting cow.
Interrupting cow wh...Moooooooo
Substitute Candy Crowley for interrupting cow and you have a pretty good summary of the debate.
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Hell
What is the plan now? Before anything else we must stop Mitt Romney. He will want to run again in 2016. And when he loses he will try 2020. There is a pasture somewhere out in Utah he needs to be put out in. And Karl Rove should be run out of the country all together.
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El-Mo
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