Posts tagged comics
“I still can’t believe we got them to say ‘blogosphere’.”
Via XKCD.
Iranian Cartoonist Draws Politician, Sentenced to 25 Lashes
Via the Guardian:
An Iranian cartoonist has been sentenced to 25 lashes for a caricature of a local MP, the semi-official Ilna news agency has reported.
Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani, MP for Arak, took offence to a cartoon published in Nameye Amir, a city newspaper in Arak.
The cartoonist, Mahmoud Shokraye, depicted Ashtiani in a football stadium, dressed as a footballer, with a congratulatory letter in one hand and his foot resting on the ball.
Iranian politicians, including Ashtiani, have been recently criticised for interferring in the country’s sports…
…Shokraye was subsequently sued by the MP for having insulted him. A court in Markazi province, of which Arak is the capital, sentenced the cartoonist to 25 lashes – an unprecedented punishment for an Iranian cartoonist.
The New Yorker’s answer to everyone pondering the future of reading.
FJP: The world needs more scrolls.
Slate uses a comic to explain the 1949 Syria Military Coup that many believe was the first supported by the newly-formed CIA.
The rest, as the say, is history.
Click through to view the whole thing.
You’re a good friend to the ladies, Dad.
Email to Garry Trudeau from his daughter about this week’s Doonesbury comic strip in which Trudeau tackles ultrasound mandates that states like such as Texas are proposing for women seeking abortions.
The strip has been pulled from a number of newspapers’ comics pages.
Via an interview with Emily Bazelon on Slate.
Please take a seat in the shaming room.
In its 40-plus years as a syndicated comic strip Doonesbury has seen a fair share of controversy.
This week it sees it again. Starting today with the strip above, Doonesbury author Gary Trudeau satirizes various legislative attempts across the United States to make women undergo ultrasounds before getting an abortion.
The result, a number of newspapers such as the Kansas City Star will not be running the strip but instead replace it with archives provided by Universal Uclick, Doonesbury’s syndicator.
Others, such as the Los Angeles Times are moving the strip off the “family friendly” comics pages to its editorial page.
Via The Guardian:
The strip deals specifically with a law introduced in Texas and other states requiring a woman who wants to have an abortion to have an ultrasound scan, or sonogram, which will show an image of the foetus and other details, in an attempt to make her reconsider.
It portrays a woman who turns up at an abortion clinic in Texas and is told to take a seat in “the shaming room”. A state legislator asks if she has been at the clinic before and, when she says she had been to get contraceptives, he replies: “Do your parents know you’re a slut?”
Later, she says she does not want an intrusive vaginal examination but is told by a nurse: “The male Republicans who run Texas require that all abortion seekers be examined with a 10-inch shaming wand.” The nurse adds: “By the authority invested in me by the GOP base, I thee rape.”
In an email to the Guardian, Trudeau writes, “I write the strip to be read, not removed. And as a practical matter, many more people will see it in the comics page than on the editorial page.”
Image: Doonesbury, March 12, 2012. The first in a weeklong series that tackles proposed abortion laws.
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Speaking of Prostitutes…
Via the Los Angeles Times.
Click through to read the article David Horsey wrote to go along with his cartoon.
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I can see you’re all eager to hear about my days working in the private sector… — David Horsey, Los Angeles Times. From Prop. 8 to birth control, Santorum leads the culture war.
And I want to be able to argue on my show that Obama’s stimulus created zero jobs.
Doonesbury continues exploring information silos with its “myFacts” series.
Selected comics from No Safe Harbor: Essays about Pirate Politics with works by Lawrence Lessig, danah boyd, Cory Doctorow and the Electronic Frontier Foundation among others.
Via No Safe Harbor:
No Safe Harbor, released January 24th 2012, is a collection of political essays, texts, and discussions that help explain and educate about Pirate Party positions…
…Topics covered include notes on the 4th Amendment, the history of copyright, biopatents, and corporate personhood.
The book is released under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-SA) and sharing of it is strongly encouraged. To further that, the book is available in a number of DRM-free formats, free of charge. In addition a paperback edition can be purchased through Amazon.com for $9.99
Images: Mimi and Eunice by Nina Paley. Select any to embiggen.
OK, but what I’m about to tell you does not leave this news cycle. — Paul Noth, The New Yorker.
The Donald Debates
“79% say they “won’t be able to avert their eyes”! — Doonesbury.
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