Comic by Patrick McDonnell
Chekhov wants to remind you that June is Adopt-a-Cat month! He was first adopted as a 3-month-old ball of fluff with mad ninja skillz on June 1, 2002, by sheer coincidence. (We had both just been dumped.) That night, he made it unequivocally clear that he thought Woody Allen was overrated. What a cat.
[via my supercool sister-in-law]
Comic by Patrick McDonnell
[via my supercool sister-in-law]
There are those who would say that the problem is too big and we can’t solve it. There are many people who go from denial to despair without pausing on the intermediate step of actually solving the problem. To those who say it’s too big for us, I say that we have accepted and successfully met such challenges in the past. We declared our liberty, and then won it. We designed a country that respected and safeguarded the freedom of individuals. We freed the slaves. We gave women the right to vote. We took on Jim Crow and segregation. We cured great diseases, we have landed on the moon, we have won two wars in the Pacific and the Atlantic simultaneously.
We brought down communism, we brought down apartheid, we have even solved a global environmental crisis before—the hole in the stratospheric ozone layer—because we had leadership and because we had vision and because people who exercise moral authority in their local communities empowered our nation’s government “of the people by the people and for the people” to take ethical actions even thought they were difficult.
This is another such time. This is your moment. This is the time for those who see and understand and care and are willing to work to say, “This time the warnings will not be ignored. This time we will prepare. This time we will rise to the occasion. And we will prevail.
Art by Roman Dirge
Some kind souls have archived the Lenore flash cartoons from a few years ago on YouTube. Go … (re)experience her dark muffins.
Comic by Hope Larson
This comic illustrates one of the reasons I hate cars, people who drive cars, and people who ride in cars. (Yes, I realize I’m including myself in that last group.)
Sometimes I just want to run away to a remote farm, where I can live out my days nursing abandoned baby lambs and spitting pumpkin seeds at empty beer cans. (Note to nondrinker self: Find person to imbibe beer, first.)
Humans. Blow. Chunks.
When comics publisher CrossGen went under, it left the readers of a brand-new comic known as Abadazad absolutely bereft. Created by Mike Ploog and J.M. DeMatteis, Abadazad was a gorgeously illustrated, kid-friendly yet literate title about a little girl who has to rescue her baby brother by diving into the fictional Oz-like world of Abadazad, as created over 100 years ago by classic children’s author Franklin O. Barrie (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) in a series of books.
Disney has announced its acquisition of the title, and the writers will be essentially starting over, except they’ll be incorporating the work they had already done for CrossGen into a “new prose/comic hybrid format.” Editor-in-Chief Brenda Bowen of Disney’s Hyperion Books for Children says they envision “at least four smallish hardback books with interiors that are narrative, straight text, sequential art, and black and white art. And maybe individual color plates.”
The first volume, Abadazad: The Road to Inconceivable is slated for a June 2006 release.
I haven’t been this excited since I discovered I could chew solid foods.
Hey kids, environmental comics! Eco-awareness isn’t all gloom, doom, and burned-out hippies waving signs that say “THE END IS NEAR!” Besides bringing on the weekly funny, Rustle the Leaf also doles out monthly lesson plans so teachers and savvy parents can educate their kiddies on being better stewards of the planet. Spawners, spawners-to-be, and spawnlets (or really, anyone who’s reading this) should also look out for their “Earth Day Activity Book” on Feb. 20.
(Grownups might want to mosey over to Grist for its seven-week series on poverty and the environment.)
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
by Susan Orlean
