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Your Wonkette Editors went to a journalist-packed happy hour yesterday. We didn’t really intend to write it up, but being that this is the introduction to America’s Favorite Today’s Cartoon-Mocking Weekly Column, we’re going to take the opportunity to let you know something we learned: Tom Toles, Editorial Cartoonist Extraordinaire, not only works from the Post newsroom, he also has his own office. And it’s the biggest one on the floor. It’s bigger than Woodward’s!
What we’re getting at: Cartoonists are important. And influential. And that can go to their heads. Thankfully, Resident Cartoon Expert The Comics Curmudgeon knows how to take ‘em down a few pegs. And this week’s all about Reader Participation! Join the fun, after the jump.
After two-week sabbatical for reasons of vacation-taking and sickness-having, Cartoon Violence, America’s only regular Editorial Cartoon-mocking column, returns with a vengeance.
Our guide to Today’s Cartoon is, as always, the esteemed Comics Curmudgeon. Join him, won’t you, on a magical journey through French protests, leggy anchors, dirty scary Mexicans, and America’s Sweetheart, Cynthia McKinney. The violence is unleashed, after the jump.
When a child is acting up, demanding attention, often the best strategy to correct their behavior is to ignore them — deprive them of the attention they crave, to demonstrate that it’s best won with good behavior. We have tried that, o’er these last few weeks, with playwright/satirist/critic/author/blogger David Mamet. But today, well, we’re giving in. We never said we were good with kids. And, really, can you blame us?
It is difficult to express in text the sound we made when we saw this cartoon. But it was something very close to “AAAAARRGH,” actually. Your keen ear for casual speech hasn’t failed you this time, Dave! Though that doesn’t really make up for the fact that this is the stupidest thing we’ve seen all week, and we watched The Situation Room on Tuesday. MORE »
Lately we’ve been making fun of lefty playwright David Mamet’s forays into editorial cartooning. But the left has no monopoly on lame cartoons. MORE »
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