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Blogs that do not BLARG
The following bloggers provide me with insight and rage, sometimes simultaneously. Some you may know, some you are meeting for the first time. All are worth your while. One caveat: unlike the tone of my blog and cartoon, these blog recommendations are (relatively) lacking in bile. At MakeThemAccountable.com, Carolyn Kay means to do just that. "Them" are politicians, of course, but she's got a war on for the corporate media, too. Unabashedly liberal, she provides a healthy tonic against conservative dittoheadism. (Sure, it's word. Why not?) Like Carolyn, Peter contacted me for permission to use a cartoon on his site. I was glad to grant it: anyone who could find a use for a cartoon addressing such an obscure (but quite important) issue like the free exchange of scientific information is cool in my book. And he seems like a nut, too. My kind of nut, of course. :) Speaking of nuts, I love these guys. Unlike most of my lefty comrades, I have soft spot for libertarians, and Jimmie and Fred are no exceptions. As rational as they are snarky, they give lefties like me what we desire most (short of a just society, of course): a cogent counterargument, based on rational principals and mutual respect without the redbaiting and McCarthyist charges of "anti-americanism" one gets so often from the neocons. And speaking of (more) nuts, Glenn Reynoldsruns one of the best blogspots on the web. He has called one of my cartoons "monstrous" and, like a good Bill Bennett-head, has excoriated my "moral equivalency," but I like the guy. For one, he's a fellow Tennessean (I spent many a summer with my grandparents in Knoxville, and both my parents went to UTK); and another, he puts up a good fight. And unlike his fellow neocons, he has a healthy respect for opinions other than his own. Reynold's frequent adversary, Mark Kleiman earns such respect every day by subjecting important issues to a detailed, rigorous analysis from a liberal perspective. Sheila Lennon differs from most bloggers whom I have run across in two respects: she presents information with very little editorializing (though her biases are quite evident) and she does not seem to possess a mean bone in her body. Informative, consistent and always fair-minded, Sheila provides excellent resources and a balanced perspective. |
Links That do not Blog
(well, sort of...nevermind)
The links below come highly recommended by yours truly. Howard Cruse is the best cartoonist most straight folk never heard of. And that's a shame, cuz while everyone can drop Robert Crumb's name over mochas and biscotti, they should be lining up around the block to get Howard's graphic novel masterpiece Stuck Rubber Baby at their local bookstore. Or Dancin' Nekkid With The Angels, a great, diverse collection of his early work, which had me laughing out loud the first time I read it and continues to make me chuckle. Or rioting in the streets to get the next copy of his ground-breaking Wendell series. So, if you don't know Howard, do yourself a favor, check this cat out. Judgemental, you say? Ho, brother, you ain't got no clue. For a real treat in vituperation, rattle the cage of Jeremy Pinkham, who is quite capable of tearing you a new one and making you enjoy it at the same time. Pinky's site is for anyone who cares about politics, comics, popular culture, and making a fool of oneself. Great interviews, excellent artwork by David "Boom, Boom" Lasky, a message board - the works! Where
would we be without our friends? A bit richer, no doubt much saner,
and yet none the wiser - and certainly much more bored. I am by no means the only obscure lefty slinging ink against The Man. Barry Deutsch is an immensely talented and witty cartoonist I am lucky to be friends with. His approach is much more subtle than mine, and incredibly droll. If we were flatulence, I would be loud and obnoxious, where he would be silent but deadly. By all means, sniff this guy out. He can also be found in the cartoons section of Z Magazine's website. On his recommendation, I have also become part of the cartooning community there. Thanks for the tip, Barry! In the beginning, there was a repressive, irresponsible and exploitative political order run by an elite clique of idiots, boors and repressed eggheads. Fortunately, someone found the whole thing funny, and thus political cartooning was born. Don't believe me? Good, because the History of Political Cartooning has much more reliable narrators, and these guys are certainly worth checking out. Even cooler, the rest of their site reflects their fascination with all things imperialistic. What a great antidote to our current age of corporate globalization. Much of my inspiration for putting up a weekly on-line comic strip is based on the phenomenal example of Chris Baldwin's Bruno. Chris is the postal service of on-line comics creators: neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor travelling across the country - and often the world - will keep him from posting a comic strip every day, six days a week (on the seventh day, he resteth). Over the past few years, Chris has developed an interesting, complex character whose nuances and diverse circle of friends create an organic narrative of humor and depth that puts most newspaper strips to shame. Jenn and Kip are not the only charming creative couple in the world, of course - or for that matter, in Portland. Steve Lieber and Sara Ryan moved here a few years ago and have settled in with a vengeance. Steve won an Eisner for his haunting comics work in the White Out series he did with Greg Rucka, while Sara has been drawing rave reviews for her recently published first novel, Empress of the World, a "coming out" story of teenage lesbians. In the September/October issue of Cicada, an art/lit journal for youth, Steve and Sara collaborated on "Me and Edith Head," a short comics story featuring a character from Empress. The family that creates together.... Isaac Novak does what I wish I had been sober enough to do when I was his age: namely, crank out funny, intelligent, well-drawn cartoons of a leftist persuasion with a punky attitudeŅinsolent! I highly recommend his political strip, The Poor Surgeon , as well as the Seattle newsmagazine he works with Tablet. |
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