Thanks a lot Specter... I put you in a crappy cartoon that characterizes you as a dogmatic Republican, and you totally blow it out of the water by switching parties. I'm sure next Boehner will resign his seat in Congress to become head of Amnesty International...
Actually, in the end, Specter putting a "D" next to his name doesn't change much (for the Democrats, anyway). He's still going to vote how he wants to vote on stuff, and he'll probably still use right-wing rhetoric on stuff like torture. And this week's 'toon will still be crappy...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Fighting Words: 4/20/09 Cartoon...
"Crusty McCrotchety, Spokesman"...
MORE:
I forgot to post some links to previous Crusty 'toons, as it's been a while since we've heard from him:
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Stupidity (STDY) shot up 500 points on the Dow today...
I'm gonna leave the ball-dipping parties thing alone today...
But what's the deal with the morbid glee that so many cartoonists are taking today in the deaths of the Somali pirates? Last I checked, the rampant piracy there was the result of a collapsed government and years of European ships invading Somali waters to steal their fish and dump nuclear waste. You guys really want a "Yahtzee" on skulls with bullet holes on this one?
And, someone please tell me I'm not seeing what I think I'm seeing in this cartoon...
But what's the deal with the morbid glee that so many cartoonists are taking today in the deaths of the Somali pirates? Last I checked, the rampant piracy there was the result of a collapsed government and years of European ships invading Somali waters to steal their fish and dump nuclear waste. You guys really want a "Yahtzee" on skulls with bullet holes on this one?
And, someone please tell me I'm not seeing what I think I'm seeing in this cartoon...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Say That Again?
I just had to post this quote...
As you may know, one of the right-wing media's favorite things to scream about these days is the conspiracy theory that Obama intends to eliminate the United States of America and place us all under the rule of a "one-world government." So any attempt at international diplomacy is now being pointed to as an indication that Obama wants to subvert us all to the French, or whoever. This is from a recent appearance by John Bolton on the Glenn Beck show:
Let's say that again... global warming is not something that should be discussed internationally. This man used to be United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
The Obama years are turning out to be fun for satirists after all...
As you may know, one of the right-wing media's favorite things to scream about these days is the conspiracy theory that Obama intends to eliminate the United States of America and place us all under the rule of a "one-world government." So any attempt at international diplomacy is now being pointed to as an indication that Obama wants to subvert us all to the French, or whoever. This is from a recent appearance by John Bolton on the Glenn Beck show:
BOLTON: ...you have to look underneath of it. And it's on a range of issues, not just the money supply, but gun control, the death penalty --
BECK: Global warming.
BOLTON: -- abortion, all -- global warming -- all of which are issues we can and should debate in our -- in our constitutional democratic framework. We don't need to decide them internationally. But that's what the agenda is of many people very close to the Obama administration.
BECK: OK. Thank you very much. I appreciate it, Ambassador.
Let's say that again... global warming is not something that should be discussed internationally. This man used to be United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
The Obama years are turning out to be fun for satirists after all...
hi...
OK, I'm putting more effort into Twitter now... follow me here. Although I still don't quite see the point...
Look for a bonus cartoon from me along with the new one Monday, to make up for my unexcused absence last week...
MORE: actually, it was VERY excused... I was workin' my friggin' ass off. Look for more updates to my design page coming soon!
Look for a bonus cartoon from me along with the new one Monday, to make up for my unexcused absence last week...
MORE: actually, it was VERY excused... I was workin' my friggin' ass off. Look for more updates to my design page coming soon!
Monday, April 06, 2009
Program Note
There will be a new cartoon this week... but not 'til Thursday or Friday.
I'm currently hard at work finishing up a website design job...
I'm currently hard at work finishing up a website design job...
Monday, March 30, 2009
Fighting Words: 3/30/09 Cartoon...
"Making A Budget For Tough Economic Times"...
It's a cartoon about being in an accountant's office... you were expecting something visually spectacular?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Fighting Words News: Graphic / Web Design Page...
I finally have a separate page up on my website for my graphic & web design work... go look! It includes a website I did recently for a local cafe:
I've got two more website jobs currently in the works, and a couple more lined up after that. While my skills may not be quite as polished as a big-time professional web designer working for a firm, I'm getting better. Also, I think there's something to be said for having an artist's touch on a web design project. If you're interested in hiring me, shoot me an email at nomind (at) fightingwordscomics (dot) com.
I've got two more website jobs currently in the works, and a couple more lined up after that. While my skills may not be quite as polished as a big-time professional web designer working for a firm, I'm getting better. Also, I think there's something to be said for having an artist's touch on a web design project. If you're interested in hiring me, shoot me an email at nomind (at) fightingwordscomics (dot) com.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Newspaper Blues
Sad day. The Seattle P-I was a fixture of my childhood, as my dad was a photographer there for nearly 20 years. When I was a kid, a few times I was allowed to sit and watch David Horsey and Steve Greenberg work at their desks, which were adjacent to the photographers' area. I went to Ingraham High School, just as Horsey did, and drew cartoons for the school newspaper. My dad's salary at the P-I would eventually put me through college at the University of Washington.
More than sad though, I am pissed off. There's something that's been bothering me for a long time, which was brought up again by this article in the NYT the other day and its accompanying graphic. I've written longer analyses on the plight of newspapers before, but if you'll permit me, I'd like to indulge in a little angry, superficial, Republican-style ranting about my surface impressions on a complex issue, the finer details of which I have little understanding. I am not an economist. I won't pretend that I have an alternative business model that will definitely work for newspapers, and that they are fools for ignoring this obvious course of action.
However, my read of the landscape tells me that this entire predicament for newspapers basically boils down to the existence of one website... CraigsList. The biggest killer for newspapers throughout this crisis seems to have been the drying up of their classified advertising dollars because of CraigsList. And thus, here's my rant: how in the hell can one little piddling website bring an entire vital industry like this to its knees?! How could newspapers not have a plan for this in their business models? The NYT article has the beginnings of an additional explanation -- that the huge newspaper chains took on too much debt "in a spree of buying other newspapers from 2005 to 2007, just before the bottom dropped out of the business" -- but that still doesn't explain to me the across-the-board tanking that you see in the Times' graphic. Not all failing newspapers are owned by greedy conglomerates.
How could newspapers have allowed this to happen to them?
This is not rhetorical... someone smarter than me please help me out with this...
More than sad though, I am pissed off. There's something that's been bothering me for a long time, which was brought up again by this article in the NYT the other day and its accompanying graphic. I've written longer analyses on the plight of newspapers before, but if you'll permit me, I'd like to indulge in a little angry, superficial, Republican-style ranting about my surface impressions on a complex issue, the finer details of which I have little understanding. I am not an economist. I won't pretend that I have an alternative business model that will definitely work for newspapers, and that they are fools for ignoring this obvious course of action.
However, my read of the landscape tells me that this entire predicament for newspapers basically boils down to the existence of one website... CraigsList. The biggest killer for newspapers throughout this crisis seems to have been the drying up of their classified advertising dollars because of CraigsList. And thus, here's my rant: how in the hell can one little piddling website bring an entire vital industry like this to its knees?! How could newspapers not have a plan for this in their business models? The NYT article has the beginnings of an additional explanation -- that the huge newspaper chains took on too much debt "in a spree of buying other newspapers from 2005 to 2007, just before the bottom dropped out of the business" -- but that still doesn't explain to me the across-the-board tanking that you see in the Times' graphic. Not all failing newspapers are owned by greedy conglomerates.
How could newspapers have allowed this to happen to them?
This is not rhetorical... someone smarter than me please help me out with this...
Monday, March 16, 2009
Fighting Words: 3/16/09 Cartoon...
"Yuppanzees #2"...
Sorry about the "Classic" Fighting Words this week, folks... as I've been complaining about frequently, I'm having to spend quite a bit of time on website design projects to pay the bills. As a result, the cartooning hours suffer, since the cartoons don't pay for jack right now. So, you might expect a few more "Classics" from me this year than in years past...
OR
...as always, you can drop a line to your local alternative newsweekly and respectfully suggest that, instead of cutting out all their best content in these tough times, they should spend a little money on even more hard-hitting alternative political comic strips such as, oh I don't know, this one I like called Fighting Words!
Anybody who wanted to do that would be totally freaking awesome in my book...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Fighting Words: 3/9/09 Cartoon...
"The Wall Street Media's Faces of the New Great Depression"...
I'm doing a website job right now for a photographer, so I've got photojournalism on the brain...
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Great cartoon business idea
Doing image research for this week's 'toon, I came across this. This guy takes monsters and other characters in kids' drawings, and develops them into full paintings.
Monday, March 02, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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