Updates on The $5000 Prize Money I'm Trying To Win

I've entered a contest sponsored by the Illinois Humanities Council and The MacArthur Foundation called Looking At Democracy. There's $100,000 worth of prize money, and $5000 of that money is a "People's Choice" Award. Voting is open to the public, and you can help me win the $5000 by voting for my submission.

Voting is free and easy, and won't take much time. Visit the page with my submission, "Truth or Consequences". On the right side of the page is a red button that says "VOTE". Click on it, and they will ask you sign up and log in with your email address. I'd really appreciate it if you'd vote for my cartoon and spread the word! Thanks!

UPDATES: Please Note--Only votes placed on the contest website will be counted (Facebook "likes" are not included). Voting is open until 3pm ET May 16.

As of a couple of days ago, the current top ten submissions were:
Solutions To Strengthening America's Democracy / 158
Civic Hacking in Pursuit of Democracy / 119
Dear Democracy… / 97
Bring It to The Table / 92
Spin / 73
DIVE IN: This is What Democracy Looks Like / 64
Exciting / 61
Carrots and Sticks for Democracy / 60
Agenda Setters / 55
Democracy is US! / 50

So, unfortunately, I'm not even in the top ten. Fortunately, voting is still open until May 16th, and I've had some help from some friends getting the word out. A big thank you goes out to
BLCKDGRD for a couple of links
Battochio for a whole post plugging my cartoon.
Tengrain did me a huge favor by getting a link into the Mike's Blog Round Up at Crooks and Liars.
Elizabitchez for the reblog on Tumblr.
Goth Summer for the reblog on Tumblr.
....and The Small Press Expo for the shout out and kind words.
And a big thank you to all the people who took one minute out of your day to help me win some cash.

Help your friendly neighborhood cartoonist earn $5000, won't cost you anything but a little time

I've entered a contest sponsored by the Illinois Humanities Council and The MacArthur Foundation called Looking At Democracy. There's $100,000 worth of prize money, and $5000 of that money is a "People's Choice" Award. Voting is open to the public, and you can help me win the $5000 by voting for my submission.

Voting is free and easy, and won't take much time. Visit the page with my submission, "Truth or Consequences". On the right side of the page is a red button that says "VOTE". Click on it, and they will ask you sign up and log in with your email address. I'd really appreciate it if you'd vote for my cartoon and spread the word! Thanks!

Help me win some money, won't cost you anything but a little time.

I entered a contest sponsored by the Illinois Humanities Council and The MacArthur Foundation called Looking At Democracy, and reworked one of my Blog Against Theocracy cartoons.

The Looking@Democracy challenge is offering a total of $100,000 in prize money for short, provocative media submissions designed to spark a national conversation about how we can all come together to strengthen American democracy. Here’s how the competition works: Create and send us short digital media content that either: (a) Tells a story about why government is important to our lives, or (b) Tells how we might together strengthen American democracy. Your submission can come in many formats such as short videos, audio stories, animation, music videos, public service announcements, infographics, graphic art, even Facebook and iPhone apps. They all just need to be digital so they can be shared electronically– the rest is up to YOU!

There's a "People's Choice" award of $5000, and I'd really, REALLY appreciate your vote."People's Choice" voting for entries begins May 6 and runs through May 16. Be sure to spread the word, and only vote once.

Voting is free and easy, and won't take much time. Visit the page with my submission, "Truth or Consequences". On the right side of the page is a red button that says "VOTE". Click on it, and they will ask you sign up and log in with your email address. I'd really appreciate it if you'd vote for my cartoon and spread the word! Thanks!

Paging Pon Carlo

Popo's drawing last summer (11 yrs. old?)

Ain't Gonna Work On Maggie's Farm No More

I hate the way she makes us mop the blood off the floor....

Ten Years On: Iraq Bleeds On, Pakistan Bleeds Anew

The Boy With The Spirograph Eyes

I started reading Death and The Penguin by Andrey Kurkov a few days ago, about a guy in Russia writing obituaries. And then The Obituary Man came across my dashboard. I get a chuckle out of small connections between something I’m doing and something I see or hear, because they happen to me all the time.



Here are some other examples of the co-incidents. While drawing a picture of a Dr. John 8-Track tape and listening to the radio, the DJ played a 10 second snippet of Dr John playing Professor Longhair’s “Big Chief” as a bumper. The radio show I was listening to wasn’t playing any of that type of music, but there it was as a 10 second flash.



I picked up a copy of The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, not knowing anything about it, never heard of it before, just bought it because of the cover. Postage stamps figure into the plot, and at one point the main character, Evers, mentions the Elvis Stamp, and that just makes me laugh, because the Elvis Stamps are a main feature of the plot in my next comic book, working title; “John Jacob Dingleberry Schlitz”. The Elvis Stamps get contaminated with LSD.





So, I’m drawing the characters, Tom and Junior, Starting to ink them, they're tripping their brains out while cooking at the restaurant, and they’re singing songs and fixing food (page 47, page 56), and I’m thinking, I should name the comic book “The Boy With The Spirograph Eyes” instead of "John Jacob Dingleberry Schlitz". And then, here comes the pictures of the Higgs Boson thing, and Oh My God Particle, it looks like a Spirograph!



”John Jacob Dingleberry Schlitz” will now be known as “The Boy With The Spirograph Eyes”.