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*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 »

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

Greetings and buenas dias, Wonketteers! This week, we peek once again at the political cartoons that arrive at Cartoon Violence Headquarters via international couriers from the vast, blighted wasteland we call “the non-America part of the world.” What makes these kooky foreigners tick? What comes into their swarthy little heads when they decide to
scrawl out non-American cartoons using berry-juice ink on tree bark or whatever it is they use over there? If this batch of the cartoons are any indication, they sure love ex-Vice President Al Gore. Or at least we think so — some of them aren’t even in English! But there’s a general tone of Nobel Prize-winning smugness that you’ll get in full effect after the jump. (Fun fact: Did you know that the Nobel Prizes are handed out by foreigners?) MORE »