Remember that time you were like “oo look a comic book about mice” and then you were like “this shit’s not funny it’s about the Holocaust”? Whoops! Well, Art Spiegelman, the author of that comic book (Maus) will be making a rare public appearance tonight at the Corcoran Art Gallery. MORE »

Oh why looky here! Wonkette’s own Josh “Comics Curmudgeon” Fruhlinger is getting more famous by the day, and today’s proof is an exclusive Q&A in the elitist New Yorker’s decadent Cartoon Lounge, which is a blog for furries and cartoon fetishists. Let’s see what he has to say about Alex Trebek, cartoon gays, and Mary Worth’s last days. MORE »

Oh look, it’s America, the nation of 11-year-old fat kids who lack the intellectual capacity to process anything beyond comic books. Have you heard about the greatest work of cinematic art in history, 300 Explosions With Batman and Joker? It’s the most “mature” of this year’s crop of 500 fucking movies about comic books, according to Critics who haven’t seen a film made for grownups since about 1978, when the last ones were produced. MORE »

OKLAHOMA DEVIL-HOMOSEXUAL COMIC GUY ON CNN: Hilarious accused felon & Oklahoma county commissioner Brett Rinehart tells the teevee news, “I’m not even sure as to what ‘homophobic’ means, but let’s just keep in mind that we are in a cultural war.” [CNN/Raw Story]

Who knew the NRA could be a funny political topic? The boring lobbying group just keeps giving back to America with the crazy no-longer-so-secret graphic novel about the sinister Jews, Illegal-alien gang Negroes, the UN and animal-rights terrorists all conspiring with Rosie O’Donnell and George Soros and Katie Couric to steal our precious freedoms and cause various natural disasters.
The latest: That PDF final proof of the scary “FREEDOM IN PERIL” booklet contains all sorts of semi-hidden editing notes and instructions and comments between the paymasters and the artists: MORE »

While we were enjoying whatever people enjoy over the long War On Christmas weekend, that secret NRA graphic novel we discovered was causing all sorts of ruckus.

A bunch of dull morons over at the Daily Kos spent a lonesome day “proving” how we magically created all this beautifully frightening artwork because “Wonkette: Liar” (seriously, that was their headline). Smarter people over at a California concealed-weapon-permit site had more interesting things to say, but concluded the NRA comic was a hoax not by Wonkette but by a literary website we’ve never heard of — that theory lasted long enough to make it to Boing Boing, while CBS News producers desperately sought comment from Wonkette editors … in the comments.

More crap, after the jump.

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Nothing goes better together than gloomy government reports and comic books, which is why Slate’s cartoon version of the 9/11 Commission Report was such a staggering artistic and commercial success that truly marked the fifth anniversary of the terror attacks for all Americans.

Unfortunately, we don’t have five years to pay some second-rate comic inkers to make up “dramatic” visuals for 100+ pages of bureaucratic surrender, so we’ve just slapped some of Baker and Hamilton’s shimmering prose atop Slate’s 9/11 comic.

Join us after the jump for a very special “We give up!”

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“The Boondocks” was much discussed by the nine people still concerned about the funny page, and today the Washington Post reports that it’s all over for the comic strip. MORE »

Exhibit A: President Bush’s posture is great. And Karl Rove has never looked more like Philip Seymour Hoffman. The first chapter inexplicably ceases mentioning the President at all after this panel, possibly because the artists seem scared to draw his face.
Exhibit B: Dick Cheney attempts to express shock despite being unable to register any emotion on his vulcanized rubber face. Meanwhile, androgyne adviser Mary Cheney/Karen Hughes/Mary Matalin looks on, concerned. Also: “Oh, no!” is apparently the interjection of choice at the White House, after “golly” and “holy cow” were ruled a bit risque for mixed company. MORE »

Last week, we introduced you to Cartoon Violence, wherein our resident cartoon expert The Comics Curmudgeon, who read Hi & Lois at Oxford, marches grimly through Today’s Comics so you don’t have to (not that you probably feel too much of a need to, really, but presumably someone does, right?).

This week: CC believes that children are our future. Cartoonists seem to have never met any. Get yr crosshatch on, after the jump.

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