Chuck and Anne have taken the day off to enjoy some shmoo together for Thanksgiving (no one remembers what a real turkey tasted like, so the best they can conjure is a shmoo tofurkey). In the meantime, enjoy this perennial Deep Fried classic and ask yourself: “How can I make MY Thanksgiving more special?”
Here it is! As promised, the first installment of my Occupied! cartoon series for the Rochester City Newspaper.
Frank Miller, the genius behind Bat Man: The Dark Night Returns and Sin City (also the declining genius responsible for 300 and the jaundiced hack to blame for The Spirit) recently posted a blog condemning the Occupy movement. This follows a previous blog in which he touted his latest work, Holy Terror, as unapologetic anti-muslim “propaganda”.
I have no objection to Frank Miller’s politics. He has always hinted at certain reactionary leanings. Still, it is puzzling that the man responsible for turning DC Comics’ biggest poofter, Batman, into the world’s most well-known dissenter (for what else is an angry vigilante?) should feel such such strong negatives towards the Occupiers. They are, after all, engaging in the legal form of retaliation Miller has always endorsed when it took the form of violence.
“The “Occupy†movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment.” Miller writes, slurring his text.” “Occupy†is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.”
How did the author of America’s favorite antiheroes wind up sounding like Abraham Simpson with a hemorrhoid? Marv, the chiaroscuro star of Sin City, was never ashamed to grind the faces of high society’s phonies into the asphalt. Back in the real world, however, asking that the richest scions of Mammon be held accountable for devastating the economic fortunes of roughly one billion people exceeds the threshold of a cartoonist who would normally recommend removing the kneecaps of a common purse snatcher.
Perhaps it is because Occupy has adopted the Guy Fawkes mask made popular by comic writer Alan Moore as its symbol instead of a Batman halloween mask, the kind with a slit for a mouth. If anyone knows which lounge/casino Frank Miller spends his mornings passed out in, can they ask him if this is what it will take to win him over?
I am now free to report that the molesting of my comic strip schedule is completely unrelated to Joe Paterno, but can be blamed on Occupy Wall Street.
I am covering Rochester, NY’s Occupation movement in a series of comic strips for the City Newspaper, Rochester’s premier alt weekly source for arts, politics and 99¢ parmesan chicken wing coupons for Cobb’s Hill. This has required me to go deep undercover to earn the movement’s trust so I can mooch their coffee and donuts. And also learn stuffs.
The first strip will run next week, and everyone of you who has wondered if sleeping in a park as part of a nationwide political stampede might be a nice alternative to watching Desperate Housewives is urged not to miss it! I will of course post a link here.
I should be back to the Monday/Thursday schedule by next week. Until then, there’s a sleeve of the People’s Girl Scout cookies calling my name.
Hi gang! (Oh, and hello Mrs. Gang. You look lovely today). I just want to let you folks know that my strip updates over the next couple weeks may not adhere to the regular schedule of Monday/Thursday. I will still be doing two a week, but now those posts may occur on unpredictable days. Monday/Tuesday, Tuesday/Sunday…. who knows how I what I will be trying to get away with??
I apologize in advance, and promise that this will not last long. A few schedule-floobing things have fallen into my lap, and I will have to do some juggling to accomplish everything I need to for the next fortnight or so. Thank you for your patience.