Rumplestiltskin

This gag was inspired a while back by the fine folks at Republispin, and I'm just getting around to drawing it.

Ron has a great post about the connection between former Deputy Secretary of State Dick Armitage and Pakistan's Musharraf.

Cernig on NeoCon Myopia

Great News! The Dark Wraith has revamped The Big Brass Blog, originally started by Pam's House Blend and Shakespeare's Sister. The Big Brass Alliance will soon follow. Check it out!



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Steve Lafler

A few days ago, I got a comment from cartoonist Steve Lafler. Steve's work since the 1970s has been a big influence on my own work. His comic strip "Aluminum Foil" and the comic strip collection "Benb and Gerald", along with his comic book , "Mean Cat featuring Crazy Eddie", really opened my eyes to the unlimited possibilities of cartoon ideas. The only limitations you have are the ones you place on yourself. Above is a cover of the Fantagraphics Books edition of Steve's "Dog Boy #5". I wish I still had my issue of Mean Cat. It had a hand silksceened cover. It was lost many years ago, but I still have the t-shirt!It's threadbare and falling apart,so it's a Zencomix museum piece now...





I wish I still had my copy of "Benb and Gerald", but I gave it to my brother for safekeeping while I was living out of my truck a few years ago...here's a page out of Dog Boy #5. Enjoy...

Subterranean Halliburton Blues

Johnny's at the U.N.
Mixin' up with Kofi, and
Thinkin' bout the Government
The Man in The Flightsuit
Flag burnin', afraid of
Says he got a bad cough
Wants Halliburton paid off

Look out kid
They got a no-bid
God knows when
But they're doin' it again

You better duck hunt another day
Cookin' books with Kenny Lay
The Man in the KBR cap
From the Wolfowitz den
Wants 11 billion dollar bills,
You only got 10


Rummy comes foot fleet
Face covered, black sheet
Talkin' that Rove put
Gannon in the bed, but
The Keg's tapped anyway
Novak says that Cheney'll say
They bunker-bust in early May
So cough up the pundit's pay...

Look out Kid
We got our no-bid
Walk on tip-toes
Drug War drug flows
Better photo-op with those
That carry 'round a firehose
Keep a coke nose
His vacation grows
You don't need a weatherman
To know which way Katrina blows...

Get rich, Dick swell
Hang around an oil well
Rangers' sell, show and tell
Hurricane pell-mell
Try hard, pork lard
Payback, Right gale
Gitmo jail, jump bail
Join the Army if you fail

Look out kid
they got a no-bid
Betchel cheater
six times looser
around Iraqi Theater
Condi by the whirlpool
Colin got played the fool
Rove's hallowed leaker
Watch, Iraq's a bleeder

Ahh, Get Born-Again, porn again
short pants, romance, Gannon Dance
Get blessed, Gitmo stress
Torture test, they'll confess
Please her, tease him, buy gifts
Porkfat Lobbyist
20 years of snortin'
and they teach you how to play the grift

Look out kid
They got the no-bid hid
Better dump Gannon's manhole
Flightsuit vandal
Iraqis wearin' sandals
Avoid Chalabi scandals
Don't wanna be a bum
Can't walk and chew gum
The pumps don't work
Cuz the levee breach was plannned,DOH!

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Comix Links

I periodically check my sitemeter to see who is checking out my blog, and to visit new blogs I haven't heard of that are visiting me. Modspil.dk is some kind of foreign language comix site that has one of my cartoons posted. I know nothing about them and I can't understand the language (German? Dutch?), but it looks like a site similar to Drawn!, over on my blogroll.

Writers

My good friend Megan started a blog, Megan E. Freeman-Poet. Here's a selection...

We Will Meet Under The Bodhi Tree


Two blocks north
the Zen center stretches
in a sun salutation.

One block south
the fellowship blinks
its sleepy doors to greet
the coffee makers and
flower arrangers.

We buckle on our Mary Janes
you tie your soft-soled shoes
we toss the paper up the driveway
and turn to walk our separate paths
dropping breadcrumbs along the way.

And when the sun is high
in the Sunday sky
we will meet under the Bodhi tree
to spread our picnic blanket
and tell each other stories.

All paths lead home.

Go visit and welcome Megan to the wonderful world of blogs!

My old tai-chi buddy and beer drinking hellraiser, Bart Yates, winner of the 2004 Alex Award from the American Library Association for his book , Leave Myself Behind, has a new book out tomorrow! The Brothers Bishop is the eagerly awaited second novel by the Bartman!

Meanwhile, Shakespeare's Sister has a book in the works....A Beggar Prepares to Plunge has 9 chapters ready for reading! Check it out!

Arvin Hill has a book somewhere as well, although I can't find it at the moment....

Sketchbook Sunday

I came across this sketch I did when I was about 11 years old. This goes out to The Smirking Chimp.

Tom Delay's New Reality TV Show 

On Sale At this Ebay Link

PenaCards

Sketchbook Saturday....St. Thomas of Texas 

The Coalition of The Willing 

Preemptive War 

Paul Wolfowitz 

George Bush...Oily Coyote 

PenaCards

Another batch of Pena Cards can be viewed here. They are on sale here at Ebay.

Tom Delay's dad gets the plug pulled. 

Activist Judges in Terri Schiavo's case 

Scott McClellan 

Mission Accomplished! Bring 'Em On! 

Tom Delay and Terri Schiavo 

The Repiglicans...Terri Schiavo