Nebraska cartooning legend Paul Fell has created a new email service — The Daily Felltoon. Subscribers to the service receive a new cartoon in their inbox each business day.

As more newspapers and magazines face growing pressures on their finances, they’ve often made the decision to eliminate high-quality content, including the work of cartoonists. This not only leads to a generally lower quality print product, but it keeps readers from being able to enjoy a more light-hearted view of political and social issues that face everyone, regardless of their political persuasion.

You can sign up to the Daily Felltoon at paulfellcartoons.com/thedailyfelltoon.

Over the past few months, I’ve been working on art for Powerpop Comics, a new comics publisher out of New Jersey. It was my first stab at an actual comic book, and it has been a fun experience. Everything was kind of under wraps until now, as the site is up, the books are printed and the company is officially in business.

I’m the artist on Weird Thrills, an adventure comic about vampires and that kind of good stuff. The publisher’s intent is to create fun comics that are appropriate for all ages, and I think he’s put together a great story for this. I had no idea what to expect when I got involved, but the story has been a blast to illustrate. It’s also been a great learning experience, as far as the process of putting the pages together goes. I’m penciling, inking, coloring and lettering this thing, so the learning curve was kind of steep, especially with the deadlines.

It’s also refreshing to have a creative outlet that doesn’t involve stepping into the increasingly vicious and decreasingly civil world of political discourse. You have to take a break from that stuff, and a fun adventure story has been the perfect antidote for me.

Powerpop is also releasing a series called Comics Classics, which is comic book adaptations of classic short stories. And if you’re a teacher trying to get your students to read classics, they offer a classroom discount for subscriptions.

No more sales pitches, I promise.

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Thanks for a fun 2008, folks.

from thinkprogress.org:

One of the distinguishing characteristics of modern American conservatism is that it believes in a curious concept of “color blindness.” In this view, racism is bad. But absent truly egregious behavior, it’s not something you’d really get all that upset about nor is it something you should be really attuned do. But so-called “political correctness” — meaning something like anti-racism that’s gone too far — is a really serious problem. Any hint of political correctness is worth getting upset about. And the views of actual members of racial minorities as to what is and isn’t racist should be completely discounted. Rather than saying that the prudent and decent white person will steer a mile clear of racist activity — sending out “Barack the Magic Negro” CDs, for example — the best course of action is to deliberately drive straight at the line and then get really upset at anyone who says you’ve crossed it.

This comes on the news that Chip Saltsman’s “Barack the Magic Negro” song parody is actually helping him in his quest to become RNC chairman.

This one shall be lost to history.

This was my favorite of the Sarah Palin visit cartoon rejects. I loved the “Lee Terry breastfeeding America” imagery so much I considered doing an oil painting of it.

Here are a few other rejects from the Palin rally:
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