Posts Tagged cartoons
The final week of the Aftershock Kickstarter is here! If you are reading this, you know what to do! Pledge! Then… take up your machetes and kill my enemies! (But pledge first, absolutely!)
Also, I am now on Instagram and posting like a hung, horny teenager who just learned how to share his dick pix! (Yes, that IS how I think of my comics!) Follow me @death_ray_graphics for stuff you’ve never seen before!
Yesterday, without so much as a peep from Gabriel’s trumpet, Armageddon was declared.
No, I am not referring to the Armageddon heralded by that corpulent holdout at the Oregon bird sanctuary who, as of this writing, is probably stuffing his face hole with the last of the gummi dicks he and his fellows were sent as a joke. That was a nice effort guys, trying to shock the conscience of this country with your pathetic armed protest, but shocking the country is my job. I’m sorry that cowboy with the blue tarp didn’t get the memo.
Now…where was I? Oh yeah… so anyway, yesterday my comic book PEEK! The First hit the nation’s comic shops, and in it was a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.
In normal times that announcement would be as newsworthy as adding milk to Cheerios. However, as far as I know, this marks the only occasion of a cartoon of that particular historical character being printed in a nationally distributed American publication in the past year, and probably the last ten.
Following the slaughter at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, the major media tried to spin their unwillingness to publish any of Charlie’s Mohammed cartoons, or even a Mohammed cartoon of their own making, as either being a sign of “respect†for a potentially offended community, or else as a refusal to be goaded by terrorists into serving their purposes.
Nice try. It was horseshit then and, a year later, with the chill of that act of self-censorship still in the air, it remains a pile of horseshit. There is not a single published editorial cartoonist worthy of the tradition who, had they been allowed to, would not have drawn a cartoon of Mohammed in tribute to the courage of the fallen. And had only a handful of them been permitted to do so, that foul superstition that became a weapon against free thought and a free press would have been snuffed out forever.
Instead it persists, and even grows. The opportunity was lost.
My cartoon is not against Mohammed, Muslims or Islam. It is against censorship. This country will not escape the straightjacket of “the new normal†until it recognizes that it has been, quite effectively, terrorized. But the enemy has also made it clear, very clear, the thing that they are afraid of.
They are afraid of being laughed at.
So get laughin’.
I am going to take a second swing at doing an IAmA on Reddit. I goofed the first one I posted by not realizing I needed to be “live-in-the-room”, so to speak. So, I will now set aside a bit of time from refreshing my Kickstarter page and do this proper.
On Sunday (11/10), starting at 5PM EST, I will conduct my “Ask Me Anything” session (I’ll post the link when it goes live). AMA’s are  a conversation where, as the name strongly suggests, you may ask the host anything you want. Feel free to talk about my comics, why I have not been sued into oblivion, what drugs I am going to spend my Kickstarter loot on… whatever you like!
UPDATE: Here’s the link!
Stare into that place on the webnet that you fear to look and you will find me staring back at you!
Over at PerehlionSF.com, you can read my take on the movie Argo. Elsewhere, cartoonist extraordinaire Mat Bors stumbled across some animated gifs I made for the Something Awful forums which appropriated his artwork, and then posted them on his own site. Hoorah for the brotherhood of ink slingers!
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…And here are those gifs in convenient YouTube format!