Comicstripfan.com

comicstripfan.com Is a new site launched by Eric Agena and has the most impressive collection of original comic strip art I've ever seen. He bought a few of my originals including a drawing just for him. Check out the Idiot Box gallery here.

Cover for the Front Weekly

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Elections Tomorrow

hopefully, if you're reading this after Sunday, Iraq hasn't descended into complete chaos (more complete than usual anyway).

New Idiot Box on Thursday

I'll be posting the next Idiot Box on Thursday and will continue posting two a week for at least the next few weeks.

So my pledge to post a new one page comic every week will probably be put on the back burner while doing these.

NEW SHIRTS!

new designs are here for the second torturous term of George W Bush. They are designed and hand pulled by me and printed on American Apparel shirts.

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paid propagandists

Frank Rich of the New York Times has a great column about the recent revelations about Armstrong Williams being a paid commentator for the Bush administration.

On this particular "Crossfire," the featured guest was Armstrong Williams, a conservative commentator, talk-show host and newspaper columnist (for papers like The Washington Times and The Detroit Free Press, among many others, according to his Web site). Thanks to investigative reporting by USA Today, he had just been unmasked as the frontman for a scheme in which $240,000 of taxpayers' money was quietly siphoned to him through the Department of Education and a private p.r. firm so that he would "regularly comment" upon (translation: shill for) the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind policy in various media venues during an election year. Given that "Crossfire" was initially conceived as a program for tough interrogation and debate, you'd think that the co-hosts still on duty after Mr. Carlson's departure might try to get some answers about this scandal, whose full contours, I suspect, we are only just beginning to discern.

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But perhaps the most fascinating Williams TV appearance took place in December 2003, the same month that he was first contracted by the government to receive his payoffs. At a time when no one in television news could get an interview with Dick Cheney, Mr. Williams, of all "journalists," was rewarded with an extended sit-down with the vice president for the Sinclair Broadcast Group, a nationwide owner of local stations affiliated with all the major networks. In that chat, Mr. Cheney criticized the press for its coverage of Halliburton and denounced "cheap shot journalism" in which "the press portray themselves as objective observers of the passing scene, when they obviously are not objective."

This is a scenario out of "The Manchurian Candidate." Here we find Mr. Cheney criticizing the press for a sin his own government was at that same moment signing up Mr. Williams to commit. The interview is broadcast by the same company that would later order its ABC affiliates to ban Ted Koppel's "Nightline" recitation of American casualties in Iraq and then propose showing an anti-Kerry documentary, "Stolen Honor," under the rubric of "news" in prime time just before Election Day. (After fierce criticism, Sinclair retreated from that plan.) Thus the Williams interview with the vice president, implicitly presented as an example of the kind of "objective" news Mr. Cheney endorses, was in reality a completely subjective, bought-and-paid-for fake news event for a broadcast company that barely bothers to fake objectivity and both of whose chief executives were major contributors to the Bush-Cheney campaign. The Soviets couldn't have constructed a more ingenious or insidious plot to bamboozle the citizenry.

full article here

one page comic

I did this probably nine months ago. I'll be attempting to post new work in addition to Idiot Box approximately once a week.

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Cover for the Front Weekly

This week's cover. The theme is 'filming outside the mainstream'.

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the gay bomb

as if directly out of a comic strip the government releases new information on it's weapons programs

Pentagon sexes up the battle: But ‘Gay Bomb’ goes bust in the lab
By Jules Crittenden
Saturday, January 15, 2005
We asked. They told.

The Gay Bomb, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed yesterday, was a real proposal - an idea floated by Air Force researchers to render enemy troops ineffective by rendering them homosexual.

It was 1994. Some creative thinkers at a Wright Patterson Air Force Base lab were brainstorming on possible non-lethal weapon projects. Someone hit on this:

"Category # 3: Chemicals that affect human behavior so that discipline and morale in enemy units is adversely affected. One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior.''

It is unclear what substance would jack up the sex drive and break down the inhibitions of normally heterosexual troops. Presumeably, the idea was that rampant homosexual activity would cause shame and confusion, destroying unit cohesion.

The Pentagon didn't bite.

"Gay Bomb' is not our term,'' said Marine Capt. Daniel McSweeney, who spent all day fielding calls after the unorthodox proposal was brought out of a Pentagon closet by a watchdog group called the Sunshine Project.

"It was not taken seriously. It was not considered for further development,'' he said. ``By way of context, the Department of Defense received literally hundreds of proposals for non-lethal weapons. Admittedly, some of them were non-traditional.'

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long lost cartoon

I did this before the election and never posted it anywhere. here it is for what it's worth.

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Sprite Comix!!!

Illustration

summing up all the sports events in 2004 in one image.