I posted this about a week ago but it disappeared in the Mysterious Post Purge of Early March 2010. The commentary may not be as witty second time around.
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6. I ended up addressing some of these themes in another cartoon, but I liked the simpler and broader application in this version.
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3. This cartoon is about how Jeff Fortenberry continues to suggest that the nation’s healthcare problems would be solved if we all just ate better.
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5, 4, and 1 were great. But 2 should have been published. I almost had coffee squirt out of my nose on that one.
Why was 1 rejected? Paper afraid of a Mark Fiore-style blowup?
http://www.markfiore.com/mark-fiore-blog/learn-to-speak-teabag-tea-party-response-to-right-wing-complaints
The Journal Star will almost always choose a cartoon on a local topic over a national one. I still submit the occasional national idea on the off-chance that it’ll be good enough to justify bending the rules. In the case of #1, that didn’t work.
I plan on someday doing a finished version of #1 in comic book page format with a mock Jack Kirby style.
#1 is brilliant.