Cartoons Not By Me

A good friend of mine does an amazingly fun blog that I think you'll enjoy. Go here and then come back. Don't be away too long, I'll worry.

He also does a syndicated strip called, "Fusco Brothers," and has been a New Yorker cartoonist since he returned from battle in WWI. Leave a comment and tell him I sent you so he'll be beholden to me.



Another colleague named Dan (no relation) has some good cartoons, too. He isn't wealthy enough for his own web site, but here are a few. If you like them, write to him at cartoonist89@hotmail.com and he'll send you more maybe. I can't vouch for the other 88 cartoonists at hotmail.
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Comedy/Music Show

This Saturday, Sept 20, I'll be performing with Nellie McKay in Woodstock, NY. I've seen Nellie's live shows several times and she's always incredibly charming, funny, sexy, and her musical talents will impress even the most hardcore Metallica fan.

I'll be doing about 45 minutes of my multi-media comedy show, then Nellie will be doing a set of about the same length. All the proceeds will go to Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. If you're coming to the show, drop by the farm that day or the next for a look. You'll love it and I can offer you a personal tour. Just ask for me when you arrive, I'll be around somewhere.

By the way, I will be wearing my hat when I perform but Nellie will not be wearing her headphones.

No Place Like Homb

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Today's Bizarro is brought to you by Places Without Internet.

I'm back at headquarters and will be blogging daily again, after being away for the past week. The shows in Californy went well, I'll post some pics in a few days when I find my camera and the cord for downloading. Right now, everything I brought with me is in a scattered pile strewn about my studio.

I heard from a few people along the way that in my absence my blog readers had run amok in the comments section, like school kids with a timid substitute. I haven't had time to read them all yet, but I've seen what you apes are capable of. If I discover anything out of line, your parents will be notified. And by "parents," I mean Homeland Security so you have nothing to fear other than being color coded.

I'm also way behind on my email and can never hope to catch up completely. There are still emails from June that I have not answered yet. If you wrote to me and I didn't answer, please don't take it personally. I try to get to them all but just get overwhelmed with work, life, and a rare talent for disorganization. One day – perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in 2023 – you will get an email from me that will begin, "Sorry for the delayed response..."

I missed posting a lot of cartoons last week (I was staying with friends who had no Internet and my schedule was too hectic to get to a cafe each day) so I'll post two-a-day to catch up a bit.

Somebody wrote to me when this cartoon ran to say he didn't understand the joke. He was probably looking too hard, but it's just a simple take-off on the cartoon cliche of a guy in a bar with some clever remark about what to say if his wife calls. In this one, he takes a more surreal tack and wonders if the phone itself is his wife.

I think it's funny, a couple of blog readers will express in the comments section that they do not. Such is life in the blogodome.

New Library Comics: Week of September 8, 2008

Here's a list of the comics we added to our library collection last week:


Abel, Jessica. Life sucks / New York : First Second, 2008.

The best of the golden age Sheena / Chicago, Ill. : Devil's Due, 2008-

Castellanos Jiménez, Israel. La marcha invasora de Camilo y Che / La Habana : Pablo de la Torriente Editorial, 2007.

Comic arf / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2008.

Cotter, Joshua W. Skyscrapers of the midwest / Richmond, VA : Adhouse Books, c2008.

Dahl, Ken. Welcome to the Dahl house, or, Alienation, incarceration & inebriation in the new American Rome : a jolly rumpustime diversion for every ailing tot and mentally deficient adult / Bloomington, Ind. : Microcosm Publishing, 2008.

Dawson, Mike, 1975- Freddie & me : a coming-of-age (Bohemian) rhapsody / New York : Bloomsbury, c2008.

Follet, René. The fascinating Madame Tussaud / Canterbury : Cinebook, 2007.

Foo, Swee Chin. MuZz vol. 1 / San Jose, Calif. : SLG, 2008-

Gaiman, Neil. The facts in the case of the departure of Miss Finch / Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse, 2008.

Georges, Nicole J. Invincible summer : an anthology vol. 2 / Bloomington, Indiana : Microcosm Publishing, 2007-

Hernandez, Gilbert. Amor y Cohetes : a love and rockets book / Los Bros Hernandex [i.e., Jamie Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez, and Mario Hernandez]. Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, c2008.

Kochalka, James. Johnny Boo : the best little ghost in the world / Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf, 2008.

Lia, Simone. Fluffy / Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Books, 2008.

Mckelvie, Jamie. Suburban glamour / Berkeley, Calif. : Image, c2008.

Mome. Summer 2008 / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2005-

Niles, Steve. The lost ones / [Seattle Wash.] : Zune Arts, c2008.

Nolan, Michelle, 1948- Love on the racks : a history of American romance comics / Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2008.

Nolen-Weathington, Eric. Mike Allred / Raleigh, N.C. : TwoMorrows Pub., c2008.

Ott, Thomas, 1966 June 10- 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 / Seattle : Fantagraphics, 2008.

Porcellino, John. Thoreau at Walden / New York : Hyperion, c2008.

Prince, Liz. Delayed replays / Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf, 2008.

Rhoades, Shirrel. A complete history of American comic books / New York : Peter Lang, c2008.

Robot : super color comic vol. 5 / Carson, CA : Digital Manga Pub., 2005-

Rosenkranz, Patrick. Rebel visions : the underground comix revolution, 1963-1975 / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, c2008.

Rosenkranz, Patrick. You call this art? : a bigtime retrospective of years of hard work by G. Irons / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2006.

Sex, drugs, and violence in the comics. / New York : Pure Imagination Publishing, c2008.

Sfar, Joann. Little Vampire vol. 1 / New York : First Second, 2008.

Shaw, Dash. The bottomless belly button / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2008.

Sim, Dave, 1956- Judenhass / Kitchner, Ont. : Aardvark Vanaheim, c2008.

Skinn, Dez. Comic art now : the very best in contemporary comic art and illustration / New York, NY : Collins Design : Distributed throughout North America by HarperCollins, 2008.

Takahashi, Rumiko, 1957- InuYasha vol. 33 / San Francisco, CA : Viz, LLC, c2003-

Tamaki, Mariko. Skim / Toronto : Groundwood Books, c2008.

Tanaka, Masashi, 1962- Gon vol. 4 / La Jolla, CA : WildStorm Productions, c2007-

Tanaka, Véronique. Metronome / New York : Comics Lit, 2008.

Trondheim, Lewis. Kaput & Zösky / New York : First Second, 2008.

Usui, Yoshito, 1958- Crayon Shinchan vol. 2 / La Jolla, CA : CMX, c2008

Weiner, Stephen, 1955- Hellboy : the companion / Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Comics, 2008.

Žeželj, Danijel. Rex / [Vancouver, B.C.] : Optimum Wound, 2008.


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Missing Cartoonist

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you may have noticed I have not been posting in the past few days. There is a reason for that and it does not involve imprisonment or abduction.

I'm in Californy for some comedy shows and staying at a place with no Internet.

"No Internet?" you say incredulousy. "What the hell, Dan?"

I know. It's like living in the time of Lincoln. But we'll get through this together somehow, and before you know it I'll be back to posting daily.

Hope you're having a week of rainbows and unicorns. Or storm clouds and rabid rottweilers if you're goth.

Wiki Wiki

Bizarro is brought to you today Americans for the Right to Call Your Band Ska When it is Actually Polka.

In the mid-to-late 1900s, when I was a kid, encyclopedia, dictionary, and bible salesmen used to go door-to-door carrying heavy sample cases full of their wares. It would be hard to believe if I couldn't remember it from my own childhood. My parents actually bought a set of World Book Encyclopedias from a guy who came to the door. I think my mother worried he may drop dead if she sent him away with a full case.

Back then, before scientists had discovered the wonders of the Internets, an encyclopedia was the only way to research something in a shallow, half-assed way without going to the library. So that made it perfect for school projects. From such cursory forays into its pages, I learned that Idaho's main crop was cotton, that rock and roll music was a passing teenage phase, and that the Romans did not kill Jesus, the Jews did. I also learned how airplanes fly (pilots make them), what atom bombs are good for (keeping us safe from Soviets), and that the capital of China is Peking (until they changed it to Beijing, because it is harder to remember how to spell.)

My own Wikipedia page is rife with errors. I was not born on the 10th of anything (nor on any other day in July), I did not "drop out" of college (I was asked to leave at gunpoint), and in the picture of me it looks as though I am holding up two fingers when I was actually holding up one. Other than that, the site is a gold mine of information and I use it regularly. Even though my days of shallow, half-assed paper writing are long gone.

Sonseed

Found this amazing video from a Christian ska band called, "Sonseed," here.

My favorite lyrics are, "He taught me how to praise my god and still play rock and roll," and "He is like a mounty, he always gets his man and he'll zap you anyway he can. Zap!"

Enjoy.