Friday, August 27, 2021
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Australia’s PM becomes the only politician ever to suggest 'The Croods' as a policy prescription
Australia's prime minister compares coronavirus exit strategy to 'The Croods' movie [in print as Invoking 'The Croods,' leader urges Australians to 'go out and live again']
'We can't stay in the cave,' Scott Morrison said, comparing the events in a DreamWorks movie to lockdowns
This week's comic in The Lily
Our culture fetishizes youth. I want to celebrate my successes at any age.
I'm letting go of the 'life timeline' society has created for me
(Pepita Sándwich for The Washington Post) (Pepita Sándwich for The Washington Post)
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Free Comic Book Day comics arriving in 2 research libraries
With help and gratitude from Big Planet Comics (Bethesda), Fantom Comics, and Victory Comics, I was able to put together 2 almost complete sets for the Library of Congress and Michigan State University (as well as for myself, natch, because I am a true collector). I delivered the LoC's set yesterday, and am almost ready to mail the other set to MSU. Both sets are light on five comics - in case there's any other donors out there. And I do have extras if there are any other research libraries looking for issues.
Missing are:
10 TON PRESS
FCBD 2021 10 TON OF FUN SAMPLER
AUG 14, 2021
MAD CAVE STUDIOS
FCBD 2021 BOUNTIFUL GARDEN #1
AUG 14, 2021
DEVILS DUE
FCBD 2021 TRAILER PARK BOYS
AUG 14, 2021
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Like everyone, the Walking Dead have Metro issues
Here's What A Post-Apocalyptic Metro System Looks Like, According To 'The Walking Dead'
Monday, August 23, 2021
The Post already reviews Shang-Chi ... 2 weeks before opening
Marvel's 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings' breaks new ground, and has fun doing so
For some reason, the Post reviewed Paw Patrol.
'Paw Patrol: The Movie': More like 'Aww Patrol.' [in print as Making the leap from TV to movies is awfully cut and cuddly].
That darn Lisa Benson
A dangerous straw man [Lisa Benson; letter]
Ellen Bass, Washington
Washington Post August 21 2021, p.A17
Ellen Bass, Washington
Saturday, August 21, 2021
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "This Is Your Captain Speaking..."
I can't keep up with DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -
"This Is Your Captain Speaking..."
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3290
I present for you now, ladies'n'gents, my very first cartoon of the
2024 Presidential campaign — and leave all hope behind...
"Human remains were reportedly found in the landing gear of a US military plane after it departed Kabul airport, with harrowing unverified
footage purporting to show a person trapped on the plane's exterior as it took off...
...In footage too graphic to publish, presumably filmed through
a window by a passenger on board the plane, the person was seen trapped
outside the craft in mid-flight, though it is unclear exactly when the video was
captured or how long after the C-17 took off."
— RT.com, 08.17.2021
...and the tweet in question has since been pulled for "violating the
Twitter rules" — though, luckily, that evil, terrible old
Russian-controlled media nabbed us a frame or two. I wish I'd jumped
on it and downloaded a copy of the video as soon as I saw it — barely
7 months in, and we already have a disgustingly apt visual metaphor
for the entirety of the Biden Years.
This is your future, working-class America.
11x12.5 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 901kb
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"Shocking video appears to show body dangling from US plane out of
Kabul, 'human remains' later found in landing gear", RT 08.17.2021
https://www.rt.com/news/532251-human-remains-afghanistan-plane/
tweet deleted for "violation" with footage
https://twitter.com/sergeantsavage/status/1427452972238213122
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock
"This Is Your Captain Speaking..."
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3290
I present for you now, ladies'n'gents, my very first cartoon of the
2024 Presidential campaign — and leave all hope behind...
"Human remains were reportedly found in the landing gear of a US military plane after it departed Kabul airport, with harrowing unverified
footage purporting to show a person trapped on the plane's exterior as it took off...
...In footage too graphic to publish, presumably filmed through
a window by a passenger on board the plane, the person was seen trapped
outside the craft in mid-flight, though it is unclear exactly when the video was
captured or how long after the C-17 took off."
— RT.com, 08.17.2021
...and the tweet in question has since been pulled for "violating the
Twitter rules" — though, luckily, that evil, terrible old
Russian-controlled media nabbed us a frame or two. I wish I'd jumped
on it and downloaded a copy of the video as soon as I saw it — barely
7 months in, and we already have a disgustingly apt visual metaphor
for the entirety of the Biden Years.
This is your future, working-class America.
11x12.5 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 901kb
---------------
"Shocking video appears to show body dangling from US plane out of
Kabul, 'human remains' later found in landing gear", RT 08.17.2021
https://www.rt.com/news/532251-human-remains-afghanistan-plane/
tweet deleted for "violation" with footage
https://twitter.com/sergeantsavage/status/1427452972238213122
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock
Flugennocks Latest'n'Greatest: "Afghan Women's Liberation no. 2"
DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock -
"Afghan Women's Liberation No.2 (or, Won't Somebody Think Of The Women?)"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3298
When the US first set out inflicting two decades of destruction and
misery on Afghanistan the Liberals, true to the old Phil Ochs song,
were never more red, white and blue — and the Liberals' most
appallingly cynical appeals for support for that debacle came from the
"imperial Feminists" who tried to tug our heartstrings with horror
stories about burqas, illicit nail salons, and no HBO.
So, it was no surprise when America's Imperial Feminists picked up
where they left off, joining the chorus of bitching, pissing, moaning
and sour-graping about their being run out of Afghanistan, reviving
the tired old bromides about women's rights and how the US "left women
behind" when it dragged its bloody ass out of the place after twenty
years in the Graveyard Of Empires.
The most unctous of these was an article in The Atlantic which dragged
out every one of those tired old arguments, hoary old horseshit so old
it's got SCSI ports on the back. What was merely appalling twenty
years ago is absolutely godawful today, considering the current abuse
of working-class women in the US, and in US satellite states like
Saudi Arabia:
One reason that we stayed in Afghanistan so long with nothing to
show for itexcept the safety of women, @CaitlinPacific writes, is that for
all of our sins, our default position is freedom.
—The Atlantic, @theatlantic on
Twitter, 08.19.2021
Says on the author's profile that she traffics in "thought crimes for
all occasions". I wouldn't know about that, but that article of hers
sure is a goddamn crime, I'll tell ya that for free.
10x17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 993kb
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"One reason that we stayed in Afghanistan so long with nothing to show
for it except the safety of women, @CaitlinPacific writes, is that for
all of our sins, our default position is freedom." The Atlantic,
@theatlantic on Twitter, 08.19.2021
https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1428368543058300937
Caitlin Flanagan, @CaitlinPacific on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/CaitlinPacific
"The Week the Left Stopped Caring About Human Rights", Caitlin
Flanagan in The Atlantic, 08.19.2021
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/america-afghanistan-women/619828/
"Afghan Women's Liberation", cartoon by Mike Flugennock, February 2002
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=251
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock
"Afghan Women's Liberation No.2 (or, Won't Somebody Think Of The Women?)"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3298
When the US first set out inflicting two decades of destruction and
misery on Afghanistan the Liberals, true to the old Phil Ochs song,
were never more red, white and blue — and the Liberals' most
appallingly cynical appeals for support for that debacle came from the
"imperial Feminists" who tried to tug our heartstrings with horror
stories about burqas, illicit nail salons, and no HBO.
So, it was no surprise when America's Imperial Feminists picked up
where they left off, joining the chorus of bitching, pissing, moaning
and sour-graping about their being run out of Afghanistan, reviving
the tired old bromides about women's rights and how the US "left women
behind" when it dragged its bloody ass out of the place after twenty
years in the Graveyard Of Empires.
The most unctous of these was an article in The Atlantic which dragged
out every one of those tired old arguments, hoary old horseshit so old
it's got SCSI ports on the back. What was merely appalling twenty
years ago is absolutely godawful today, considering the current abuse
of working-class women in the US, and in US satellite states like
Saudi Arabia:
One reason that we stayed in Afghanistan so long with nothing to
show for itexcept the safety of women, @CaitlinPacific writes, is that for
all of our sins, our default position is freedom.
—The Atlantic, @theatlantic on
Twitter, 08.19.2021
Says on the author's profile that she traffics in "thought crimes for
all occasions". I wouldn't know about that, but that article of hers
sure is a goddamn crime, I'll tell ya that for free.
10x17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 993kb
----------
"One reason that we stayed in Afghanistan so long with nothing to show
for it except the safety of women, @CaitlinPacific writes, is that for
all of our sins, our default position is freedom." The Atlantic,
@theatlantic on Twitter, 08.19.2021
https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1428368543058300937
Caitlin Flanagan, @CaitlinPacific on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/CaitlinPacific
"The Week the Left Stopped Caring About Human Rights", Caitlin
Flanagan in The Atlantic, 08.19.2021
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/america-afghanistan-women/619828/
"Afghan Women's Liberation", cartoon by Mike Flugennock, February 2002
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=251
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock
Friday, August 20, 2021
Tom King interview on music site
Superhero Status: Isaiah Rashad on the DC Comic Behind His New Album [Mr. Miracle; Tom King and Mitch Gerads interview]
Monday, August 16, 2021
Catching up with The Lily's comics (again)
Social media can hurt and help us. These comics dive into the complexities.
Read the final installment of a special edition of Lily Lines
(Bianca Xunise/For The Washington Post)
Self-defense can be hard to remember under stress. Here are 9 easy tips from experts.
They rounded up advice on how to handle verbal, physical and online threats
(Pepita Sandwich) - illustrations only
https://www.thelily.com/self-defense-can-be-hard-to-remember-under-stress-here-are-9-easy-tips-from-experts/
I've always been self-conscious about my breasts. Top surgery will finally allow me to be seen how I want.
After coming out as nonbinary, it became clear that it was time for surgical intervention
(Sage Coffey for The Washington Post)
Without drawing, I'm not sure who I would be
Making comics and art is something I would do even if it wasn't my job
(Gemma Correll for The Washington Post)
Magic Bullet art preview from Mike Brace
It's
been a while since we've seen an issue of the DC Conspiracy's free comics newspaper Magic Bullet, probably due to covid-19. Regular contributor Mike Brace
and I ran into each other at Free Comic Book Day at Fantom Comics and caught up briefly about his strip for the next issue.
p."
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Miss Kabul"
From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist -
"Miss Kabul"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3286
Elvis has left the building. At last.
...and as the band was playing him out, the Beltway chattering class
was in a mass conniption over all those poor, helpless collaborators
we left behind, and our lack of political will, and how, if we could
only piss away another trillion or two and tough it out until
mid-century, we could lick those mean old Taliban once and for all.
In the days leading up to Elvis' departure from the building, the
press was full of screeching and howling about how this wasn't going
to be like the evacuation of Saigon, honest it wasn't, seriously, for
real — and the louder they howled, the more convinced I was that it
would be like the evacuation of Saigon, except even more awesome.
I was 18 when I watched terrified Embassy flunkies being plucked off
the roof by the choppers on TV. The draft had officially ended around
1971 or so, but I still had to register. Got a ready-to-burn card and
everything. The day Saigon fell, I was about two weeks from graduating
high school, and classified 1-H.
Turn out the lights, the party's over...!
----------
"With Ghani Out Of Picture, Taliban Waltz Into Kabul Presidential
Palace", Press TV 08.15.2021
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/08/16/664520/With-Ghani-out-of-picture,-Taliban-waltz-into-Kabul-presidential-palace
"'This Is Not Saigon': Blinken Defends US Evacuations From Kabul", Al
Jazeera 08.15.2021
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/15/this-is-not-saigon-blinken-defends-us-evacuations-from-kabul
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock
"Miss Kabul"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3286
Elvis has left the building. At last.
...and as the band was playing him out, the Beltway chattering class
was in a mass conniption over all those poor, helpless collaborators
we left behind, and our lack of political will, and how, if we could
only piss away another trillion or two and tough it out until
mid-century, we could lick those mean old Taliban once and for all.
In the days leading up to Elvis' departure from the building, the
press was full of screeching and howling about how this wasn't going
to be like the evacuation of Saigon, honest it wasn't, seriously, for
real — and the louder they howled, the more convinced I was that it
would be like the evacuation of Saigon, except even more awesome.
I was 18 when I watched terrified Embassy flunkies being plucked off
the roof by the choppers on TV. The draft had officially ended around
1971 or so, but I still had to register. Got a ready-to-burn card and
everything. The day Saigon fell, I was about two weeks from graduating
high school, and classified 1-H.
Turn out the lights, the party's over...!
----------
"With Ghani Out Of Picture, Taliban Waltz Into Kabul Presidential
Palace", Press TV 08.15.2021
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/08/16/664520/With-Ghani-out-of-picture,-Taliban-waltz-into-Kabul-presidential-palace
"'This Is Not Saigon': Blinken Defends US Evacuations From Kabul", Al
Jazeera 08.15.2021
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/15/this-is-not-saigon-blinken-defends-us-evacuations-from-kabul
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Up, Up, And Awa-aayyy!"
From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -
"Up, Up, And Awa-aayyy!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3279
Alright, just so I'm straight, here... we're being thrown out of our
homes, we're losing our jobs, there's a new COVID-19 wave hitting,
fascists are terrorizing our streets, the cops are mass murdering us —
not to mention that millions of us all over the country still don't
have broadband service — and Mr. Counterinsurgency Big-Shot at the
White House wants to fly balloons over Cuba to "provide internet
service" while they hijack connections to broadcast US State
Department propaganda, including the Voice Of America.
Christ, I hate this goddamn country. I really, really fucking do.
----------
"We are exploring various options, including balloons" to provide
internet service to #Cuba, @WHNSC Western Hemisphere Sr. Dir. Juan
González tells @VozdeAmerica @JorgeAgobian.
—Steve Herman, Voice Of America @W7VOA on Twitter, 08.11.2021
https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1425548860886294533
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock
"Up, Up, And Awa-aayyy!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3279
Alright, just so I'm straight, here... we're being thrown out of our
homes, we're losing our jobs, there's a new COVID-19 wave hitting,
fascists are terrorizing our streets, the cops are mass murdering us —
not to mention that millions of us all over the country still don't
have broadband service — and Mr. Counterinsurgency Big-Shot at the
White House wants to fly balloons over Cuba to "provide internet
service" while they hijack connections to broadcast US State
Department propaganda, including the Voice Of America.
Christ, I hate this goddamn country. I really, really fucking do.
----------
"We are exploring various options, including balloons" to provide
internet service to #Cuba, @WHNSC Western Hemisphere Sr. Dir. Juan
González tells @VozdeAmerica @JorgeAgobian.
—Steve Herman, Voice Of America @W7VOA on Twitter, 08.11.2021
https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1425548860886294533
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock
NYT reviews Rep. Lewis' Run
John Lewis's Sequel to His Award-Winning Graphic Memoir, 'March'
- A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 15, 2021, Page 22 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: A Young John Lewis Marches On
Saturday, August 14, 2021
That darn Dilbert and Lio
'Dilbert' isn't that deep [letter]
Rick Flowe, Manassas
Washington Post August 14 2021
Unidentified foreign oddity [Lio letter]
Jacqueline Coolidge, Chevy Chase
Rick Flowe, Manassas
Unidentified foreign oddity [Lio letter]
Jacqueline Coolidge, Chevy Chase
Jacqueline Coolidge, Chevy Chase
Batman goes back to the future
Tim Burton never got to make more Batman movies. This new comic is the next best thing [in print as A cinematic-inspired iteration for the Caped Crusader]
Washington Post August 15, 2021 p E10
Friday, August 13, 2021
Cavna on The Suicide Squad characters; Betancourt on What If?
Sylvester Stallone as a shark king? A guide to nine oddball characters in 'The Suicide Squad.' [in print as DC's squad of quirky superhero characters]
Glen Weldon on What If and Robin
'What If...?' Gives The Marvel Cinematic Universe An Animated Banger Of A Remix
Glen Weldon
NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour August 11, 2021
Batman's Sidekick Robin Comes Out. It Makes Sense, If You Were Paying Attention
· NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour August 10, 2021
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