Sunday, August 29, 2021

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Stealing Our Souls"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -


"Stealing Our Souls"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3301

There's a new strain of Covidiot virus going around among healthcare 
workers — proof that Stupid can strike any of us, though if you 
consider how long it takes to become a doctor vs. how long it takes to 
become a nurse, it all makes sense.

There have been a couple of outbreaks of the new Stupid Variant in the 
past week, in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and in New York. A 
close read of the thread in which Max Blumenthal tweets the NYT 
article tells me, personally, that Blumenthal is about to dive down 
the anti-vax rabbit hole if he hasn't already. He seems to imply at 
one point that PhD's were among the most reluctant to take the 
vaccine, which proves nothing except that having a PhD doesn't make 
you immune to the Stupid Variant — nor does not being a Trumpster.

But, back to the outbreaks of Covidiot Virus. You know how back in the 
1970s and '80s you'd read every so often about some National 
Geographic documentary crew going deep into the Amazon jungle or 
someplace and encountering some tribe that's lived in isolation for a 
thousand years, and they see the cameras and video images of 
themselves for the first time and freak out because they think the 
cameras are stealing their souls? Well, how different is that from 
these doorknobs who think that Bill Gates is putting microchips in 
vaccines, or that taking cow dewormer and shitting out your stomach 
lining will cure Covid-19?

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Also includes the "Infected Mix"


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"A Hospital Finds an Unlikely Group Opposing Vaccination: Its 
Workers", Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura in the New York Times, 08.24.2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/22/nyregion/staten-island-covid-vaccine-workers.html

"The stereotype of The Unvaccinated as MAGA neanderthals is falling 
apart almost as fast as the Pfizer efficacy rate" — Max Blumenthal 
@MaxBlumenthal on Twitter, 08.24.2021
https://twitter.com/maxblumenthal/status/1430355070235860997

"A July 2021 Carnegie Mellon study revealed 'the most educated group' 
consisting of PhD's to be the most strongly and consistently reluctant 
to take emergency use Covid vaccines..." — Max Blumenthal 
@MaxBlumenthal on Twitter, 08.24.2021
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1430375565387878401




Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock

Friday, August 27, 2021

8/28: Fantom Comics online bookclubs




>>>Saturday, August 28th @ 4pm

>>>BLACK EXCELLENCE BOOK CLUB

Black Excellence Book Club presents, "Genius, Volume 1: Siege"

Join the Pop Culture Uncovered podcast and Fantom Comics for a discussion of, "Genius, Volume 1: Siege", written by Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman, with art by Afua Richardson.

From the book jacket: "Winner of Top Cow's 2008 PILOT SEASON...GENIUS stands out in a world of science fiction and superheroes. Full of stark verisimilitude, painfully dark humor, and disturbing cultural relevance, this book will earn its place in any comic fan's collection - however conventional or unconventional the taste."

Facebook event link: https://fb.me/e/2FBhKFRUx

Get your copy now so you can join the discussion: https://stores.comichub.com/fantom_comics/products/genius-trade-paperback-volume-1.00


>>>Saturday, August 28th @ 6pm

>>>MANGA BOOK CLUB

Fantom Comics Manga Book Club presents, "My Little Monster, Volume 1"

Following the Black Excellence Book Club, jump on Zoom for the very popular Fantom Comics Manga Book Club, with this month's featured manga, "My Little Monster, Volume 1," by Robico.

From the publisher: "Mizutani is a self-absorbed overachiever, concerned only with maintaining the highest grades in school. Haru is an impulsive short tempered brute, who scares everyone with his explosive bursts of violence. Haru gets suspended on the first day of school when he encounters some bullies harassing a student and dispatches the bullies with great bloody violence. Mizutani is tasked with delivering school materials to Haru who interprets this as an act of friendship and latches on to Mizutani, much to her dismay. And so begins a strange and potentially combustible relationship!"

Zoom event registration link: https://bit.ly/monster0828

We got the book back in stock!

Get your copy now so you can join the discussion: https://stores.comichub.com/fantom_comics/products/my-little-monster-graphic-novel-volume-1.00

John K. Snyder III Discusses Peacemaker’s Debut after Suicide Squad movie

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For These Comic Artists, Heritage And Folklore Are Superpowers 

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Thursday, August 26, 2021

Al Goodwyn's cartoons for 8/26/21

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

Our culture fetishizes youth. I want to celebrate my successes at any age.
(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

NEW ENGLAND COMICS
FCBD 2021 THE TICK
AUG 14, 2021


DEVILS DUE
FCBD 2021 TRAILER PARK BOYS
AUG 14, 2021
 
 
SCOUT COMICS
FCBD 2021 WHITE ASH SEASON 2 #0
AUG 14, 2021
 
 

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.

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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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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

Social media can hurt and help us. These comics dive into the complexities.
(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

Self-defense can be hard to remember under stress. Here are 9 easy tips from experts.
(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

I've 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)


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

Without drawing, I'm not sure who I would be
(Gemma Correll for The Washington Post)