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.

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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

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.

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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

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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]

Words By Grant Brydon

August 17 2021

https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/isaiah-rashad-interview/

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

https://www.thelily.com/social-media-can-hurt-and-help-us-these-comics-dive-into-the-complexities/

(Bianca Xunise/For The Washington Post)

Rachel Orr

August 10, 2021

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

https://www.thelily.com/ive-always-been-self-conscious-about-my-breasts-top-surgery-will-finally-allow-me-to-be-seen-how-i-want/?

(Sage Coffey for The Washington Post)

Sage Coffey

August 8, 2021

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

https://www.thelily.com/without-drawing-im-not-sure-who-i-would-be/

(Gemma Correll for The Washington Post)

Gemma Correll                  

 

August 15, 2021

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.

"I'm sending you this art in response to our conversation about what I've been doing during the covid pandemic. This art is for the Magic Bullet. It's actually the second version. I wasn't happy with the original comic I drew (very cartoony) and with the delay in publishing caused by the pandemic I decided to use the first version of the story to jumpstart the second by re-imagining it as a classic newspaper adventure style comic strip."

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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...!

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"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

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.

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"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'

By Marc Lacey

• 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

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/books/review/john-lewis-run-book-one.html

That darn Dilbert and Lio

'Dilbert' isn't that deep [letter]

Rick Flowe, Manassas 

Washington Post August 14 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/readers-critique-the-post-a-shot-above-the-rest-olympics-edition/2021/08/13/8314e67a-fc40-11eb-8a67-f14cd1d28e47_story.html

Unidentified foreign oddity [Lio letter]

Jacqueline Coolidge, Chevy Chase

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/readers-critique-the-post-a-shot-above-the-rest-olympics-edition/2021/08/13/8314e67a-fc40-11eb-8a67-f14cd1d28e47_story.html

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]

David Betancourt

Washington Post August 15, 2021 p E10

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/08/10/batman-89-tim-burton-sam-hamm-joe-quinones/

Fcbd at Fantom Comics

Good selection, Jamie Noguchi signing. 

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]

Michael Cavna

Washington Post August 10, 2021 , p. C1-2

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/08/08/suicide-squad-pete-davidson-blackguard-stallone-king-shark/

What to know about 'What If...?,' the Marvel series that features Chadwick Boseman's voice [in print as 'What If...?' takes superheroes' stories in a new direction]

David Betancourt

Washington Post August 13, 2021  , p. C1, 3

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/08/11/what-if-marvel-disney-plus/

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

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/11/1026349894/what-if-gives-the-marvel-cinematic-universe-an-animated-banger-of-a-remix

 

 

Batman's Sidekick Robin Comes Out. It Makes Sense, If You Were Paying Attention

·  Glen Weldon

·  NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour August 10, 2021

·  https://www.npr.org/2021/08/10/1026482411/batmans-sidekick-robin-comes-out-it-makes-sense-if-you-were-paying-attention

NPR returns to Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

'The Lorax' Warned Us 50 Years Ago, But We Didn't Listen

Elizabeth Blair

  Morning Edition

August 12, 2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/12/1026385429/the-lorax-dr-seuss

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2021/08/20210812_me_the_lorax_warned_us_50_years_ago_but_we_didnt_listen.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1026385429

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August 11, 2021

More To Come 478: Flashback Convention Interviews [Carla Speed McNeil, Hartley Lin, Marguerite Bennett]

Reid, Calvin, Heidi McDonald and Kate Fitzsimons. 2021.

PW Comics World: More To Come

 08/06/2021

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1149

This week on More to Come, a flashback to convention interview highlights from the days of live conventions: Heidi interviews Carla Speed McNeil of 'Finder' in 2016 about her works and Finder's then 20th anniversary at Baltimore Comic Con; Calvin talks with Hartley Lin - at that time publishing under the pen name Ethan Rilly - about 'Pope Hats' now titled 'Young Frances' in 2017; and Kate speaks with Marguerite Bennett, now creating 'RWBY' and 'M.O.M.', about 'DC Bombshells' at New York Comic Con 2017.