Look, our old friend Josh Fruhlinger has written a thing for “legitimate publication” Newsweek! It is a close reading of a zit ad of some sort, maybe? Click the clicky, comment generously, buy everything advertised everywhere on the site, and maybe he will write more things about zits. At the very least, he may be able to buy his wife and cat back from the pawn shop. [The Human Condition]

COMICS CURMUDGEON INFILTRATES HALF-MUSLIN MALL MOB! Yes he did! Josh got in, and here is his tragic report: “Yes We Did! Near the monument. Screen distant, audio inaudible no cell reception. Got here in time to boo Lieberman.” Spoken like a true American Hero. Good luck getting home to Baltimore in a few weeks, Josh! Hope you like eating frozen rats! (Also Newell is trying to find you, where are you?) MORE »

Your latest report from the brave yet doomed COMICS CURMUDGEON: “Attempted to get to mall at 7th, were told it was full and we should go to 14th. Now we are trudging through this Le Corbusier-style hellscape. We will end up watching the speech from Arlington, in an Olive Garden, obviously. Sent from my iPhone.” Even elitists need bottomless grease-bread sticks! [Earlier Josh Reports]

Oh look, now you can click this computer graphic of a computer, and then, magically, you can vote for your Wonkette, so we can post a different computer graphic of a computer, but this time designating your Wonkette as the whatever-of-the-year — this time around, we are nominated for “Prettiest Libtard Blog.” We are being MURDERED by Crooks & Liars some blog we have literally never heard of, called “Confluence,” right now. Please put a stop to this outrage. MORE »

CALM DOWN NERDS: Famous person Josh Fruhlinger’s beloved “Cartoon Violence” will be back next week, and every week … starting next week. [Cartoon Violence]

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 »

Last night the McCain folks were handing out press credentials with a ridiculous bereted Frenchman on them, we are not sure why, but that dude looks suspiciously like the mustachioed sophisticate who appeared in our own “The Foreigns” column, which ran back when there was still international news and our columnist was not a Jeopardy! celebrity.

Commenter “Underclassed” asks, “Are the McCain people Josh Fruhlinger fans? Or do they just know how to run a Google Image Search for ‘French Guy?’” The point is, both the McCain campaign and Wonkette find the same random photo of a Frenchman funny, the end. [Photo via Marc Ambinder]

*THIS SOMEHOW GOT A DRUDGE SIREN, WE HAVE TO WRITE ABOUT IT:* There’s an update to Josh Fruhlinger’s post on Wesley Snipes and his interesting tax philosophy: the vampire actor was found guilty of three misdemeanors by a U.S. court for failing to file tax returns for three years. He could face up to three years in prison. Again: Wesley Snipes, potential Democratic candidate for president in 2012, could face up to three years in prison. [Reuters]

Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons.

What’s been the biggest failure of the Bush presidency to date? Oh sure, the mainstream political commentators will be all “unwinnable war” this and “collapsing dollar” that and “increasingly polarized citizenry” whatever; but to our mind, the biggest problem is that we’ve spent seven years treading water on the human-animal hybrid front. Why does Dubya hate the friendly manimal? Has he learned nothing from Al Gore’s senseless opposition to ManBearPig? Whatever his twisted motivation, America’s political cartoonists are here to show us the true awesomeness of our semi-human friends. After the jump, see what wonders of science await us in the post-Bush human-animal-hybrid-friendly future. MORE »

Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons.

America: What are you thankful for? If you’re reading this blog instead of enjoying some relaxing time with your family, you may be one of the damned souls forced to work on the Friday after Thanksgiving, and thus may not be thankful for much of anything. Conversely, you may hate your family with a seething, burning passion and may be glad to be locked in your room and surfing the Web rather than interacting with them any further (and by “interacting with them”, we mean “finally breaking down and strangling them all”). We at Cartoon Violence are thankful for things, too, obviously. For instance, we’re thankful for the timeless, comforting rhythms of the holiday season, the little rituals that ground us in tradition in this all-too-fast modern world. And, as you’ll see after the jump, any number of political cartoonists are thankful for these traditions too, because they get to use them as an excuse to draw elf corpses and Rudy Giuliani’s grotesquely swollen head. MORE »

Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons.

Why would you ever want to be a political cartoonist? Sure, you might love poverty and labels and repetitive motion injuries and ink stains that never wash out, but you that’s not enough. You have to really want to make a visceral connection with your readers. You have to aim to hit them where they live. One of the best ways to do that is to build your cartoons around some of the most basic, primal, dare I say biological desires that lurk in the human mind. This week, after the jump, we have six cartoons based around those most fundamental human functions: fucking and shitting. Read on, if you dare. MORE »